Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MARGARET (ST.), or STREET

MARGARET (ST.), or STREET, a hamlet in Ivinghoe parish, Bucks; on Icknield-street, 1 mile NW of Great Gaddesden, and 6 SE of Ivinghoe. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 1160, by Henry de Blois, bishop of Winchester.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ivinghoe CP/AP       Buckinghamshire AncC
Place names: MARGARET ST     |     MARGARET ST OR STREET     |     ST MARGARET     |     STREET
Place: St Margarets

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