Place:


Wotton Underwood  Buckinghamshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wotton Underwood like this:

WOOTTON-UNDER-WOOD, a parish, with a village, in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 7 miles N of Thame r. station. Post town, Aylesbury. Acres, 3,220. Real property, £2,958. Pop., 266. Houses, 60. W. House is the seat of the Duke of Buckingham; and the grounds connected with it occupy most of the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £100.* Patron, the Duke of Buckingham. The church is decorated English, with rebuilt tower and spire.

Wotton Underwood through time

Wotton Underwood is now part of Aylesbury Vale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Aylesbury Vale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wotton Underwood itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wotton Underwood, in Aylesbury Vale and Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5448

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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