Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for UGLEY, or Oakley

UGLEY, or Oakley, a parish in the district of Bishop-Stortford and county of Essex; 2 miles N of Stamford r. station, and 5½ NNE of Bishop-Stortford. Post town, Bishop-Stortford. Acres, 2,720. Real property, £3,019. Pop., 404. Houses, 88. The property is subdivided. Orford House is the seat of Gen. Chamberlayne. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £160.* Patron, Christ's Hospital. The church was recently restored. There are a national school, and charities £75.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ugley AP/CP       Essex AncC
Place names: OAKLEY     |     UGLEY     |     UGLEY OR OAKLEY
Place: Ugley

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