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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SULGRAVE, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Brackley district, Northamp ton. The village stands 3½ miles NNE of Farthinghoe r. station, and 6 NNW of Brackley; and has a postal letter-box under Banbury. -The parish comprises 4,100 acres. Real property, £4,037. Pop., 565. Houses, 123. The property is divided among a few. A tumulus, called Barrow Hill, is about a mile N of the village, and commands an extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £233.* Patron, the Rev. W. Harding. The church is good. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a slightly endowed school, and charities £64.—The sub-district contains 15 parishes. Acres, 27,139. Pop., 5,815. Houses, 1,323.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Sulgrave AP/CP Sulgrave SubD |
| Place: | Sulgrave |
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