Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Bishopstone, a hamlet in Stone parish, Bucks, 2 miles S ef Stone village. It has a chapel of ease to the parish church and a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1877.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Civil parish | Stone | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Biddlesdon St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Buckingham | |
Hundred | Aylesbury | |
Poor Law union | Brackley | |
Poor Law union | Aylesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bishopstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bishopstone)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bishopstone are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)