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Seer Green, Buckinghamshire

Historical Description

Seer Green, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Farnham Royal, Bucks, 2 miles SW from Beaconsfield, and 5 SW from Woburn Green station on the Wycombe, Thame, and Oxford branch of the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Beaconsfield (R.S.O.) Acreage of township, 889; population, 284. The manor belongs to the Duke of Leeds, who is chief landowner. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1847. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £105 with residence, in the gift of Eton College. There is a Baptist chapel.

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 CountyBuckinghamshire 
Civil parishFarnham Royal 
HundredBurnham 
Poor Law unionAmersham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1846.


Churches

Church of England

The Holy Trinity (parish church)

The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1846, on a site given by the Duke of Leeds, is a building of flint and stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are 200 sittings.


Civil Registration

Seer Green was in Amersham Registration District from 1837 to 1974


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Seer Green from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Seer Green are available from a number of sites:


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

DistrictChiltern
CountyBuckinghamshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtHP9
Post TownBeaconsfield

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