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BRICKHILL (Bow),-a village and a parish in Newport-Pagnell district, Bucks. The village stands near Watling-street, the river Ouzel, the Grand Junction canal, and the Bletchley and Bedford railway, 2 miles E of Fenny Stratford station. The parish comprises 1,380 acres; and its Post Town is Fenny-Stratford, under Bletchley station. Real property, £2,805. Pop., 546. Houses, 127. The property is divided among a few. The surface includes Bow-Brickhill eminence, 683 feet high; and is partly common. Some of the inhabitants are lace and straw-plait makers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £370.* Patron, Queen's College, Cambridge. The church stands conspicuously on a steep eminence above the village. Charities, £32.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Administrative units: | Bow Brickhill AP/CP Buckinghamshire AncC |
Place names: | BOW BRICKHILL | BRICKHILL | BRICKHILL BOW |
Place: | Bow Brickhill |
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