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Stowe (St. Mary)

STOWE (St. Mary), a parish, in the union, hundred, and county of Buckingham, 2½ miles (N. N. W.) from Buckingham; containing, with the hamlets of Boycutt, Dadford, and Lamport, 410 inhabitants. This place is celebrated for the princely mansion of the Duke of Buckingham, which was visited by Her Majesty and Prince Albert in January 1845. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £11.14.7.; net income, £95; patron and impropriator, his Grace. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a school, in which 50 children of both sexes are educated and clothed, at the expense of the Duchess of Buckingham. Hammond, the elegiac poet, died whilst on a visit here, in 1742.

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

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