A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
APPLETON, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands near the Thames, 5 miles NW of Abingdon r. station; and has a post office under Abingdon. The parish includes also the township of Eaton. Acres, 1,991. Real property, £2,820. Pop., 549. Houses, 121. The Fettiplaces had an old seat here, which is now reduced to a fragment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £307.* Patron, Magdalene College, Oxford. The church has tombs of the Fettiplaces, and a brass of a skeleton. A school has £16 from endowment, and other charities £35. Edmund Dickenson, the famous chemist and physician, born in 1624, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Appleton With Eaton CP/AP Abingdon RegD/PLU Berkshire AncC |
| Place: | Appleton |
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