A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MARKET-STREET, or MARKGATE-STREET, a chapelry in Caddington, Studham, and Flamstead parishes, Herts; at the boundary with Beds, 2½ miles SW of Luton r. station. It has a post office, † of the name of Markgate-Street, under Dunstable. Acres and pop. not separately returned. Real property, £1,214. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in 1145, by Geoffrey, abbot of St. Albans; was given, at the dissolution, to G. Ferrers; and has bequeathed to its site the name of Markgate Cell. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £227.* Patron, D. G. Ady, Esq. There is a grammar school, with £138 a year from endowment.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Flamstead Ch/AP/CP Hertfordshire AncC |
| Place names: | MARKET STREET | MARKET STREET OR MARKGATE STREET | MARKGATE STREET |
| Place: | Markyate |
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