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.
CRESLOW, a parish in Salsebury district, Bucks; near the Aylesbury and Buckingham railway, 4¼ miles SSE of Winslow. Post town, Whitchurch, under Aylesbury. Acres, 620. Real property, £1, 735. Pop., 9. House, 1. The manor was given, in 1120, to the Knights Templars; went to the Knights of St. John; passed, at the dissolution, to the Crown; was given, in 1635, to Cornelius Holland, the regicide; reverted, at the restoration, to the Crown; was given, in 1662, to Sir T. Clifford; and passed, in 1673, to North Gifford. The manor-house includes portions of the time of Edward III., with extensive alterations, of the time of Charles I.; and is very picturesque. A chapel adjoined it, in which many illustrious persons were interred in the times of the Knights of St. John, and which was designated by Cornelius Holland; and some remains of this, including a beautiful transition-Roman doorway, still exist. The Creslow pastures were feeding ground, for cattle for the royal kitchen, from the time of Elizabeth till that of Charles II.; and are still notable for fertility. The parish is a meet for the Whaddon chase hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value and patron, not reported. There is no church.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Creslow AP/CP Buckinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Creslow |
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