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Preston-Bissett (St. John the Baptist)

PRESTON-BISSETT (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union, hundred, and county of Buckingham, 4½ miles (S. W.) from Buckingham; containing, with Cowley hamlet, 517 inhabitants, of whom 486 are in the township of Preston-Bissett. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 9. 4½.; income, £457; patron, the Duke of Buckingham. The tithes were commuted for land and money payments in the year 1781.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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