Chalvey, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Chalvey, a chapelry in Upton parish, Bucks, adjacent to the G.W.R., 1 mile W of Slough, which is the post town. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Upton, in the diocese of Oxford. The church was built in 1861, and is in the Early Decorated English style, with some peculiarities of design.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Civil parish | Upton | |
Hundred | Stoke | |
Poor Law union | Eton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Chalvey from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chalvey 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Buckinghamshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
A full transcript of the Visitation of Buckinghamshire, 1634 is online