Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGTON

KINGTON, a tything in Thornbury parish, Gloucester; 1½ mile W by N of Thornbury. Real property, £8, 204. Pop. in 1841, 745; in 1861, 1, 156. Houses, 248. The Thornbury workhouse is here, and, at the census of 1861, had 52 inmates.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Thornbury AP/CP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Kington

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