Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Chalgrove

Chalgrove, par. and vil., SE. Oxfordsh., on affluent of river Thame, 5 miles SW. of Tetsworth, 2385 ac., pop. 512; P.O.; on Chalgrove Field in 1643 a skirmish was fought between the Royalists and Parliamentarians, in which John Hampden was mortally wounded.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chalgrove AP/CP       Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Chalgrove

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