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Colnbrook in Middlesex County England History and GeographyCOLNBROOK, a chapelry, and formerly a market town, partly in the parish of STANWELL, hundred of SPELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, but chiefly in the parishes of HORTON, IVER, and LANGLEY-MARSH, in the hundred of STOKE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 46 miles (S. E. by S.) from Buckingham, and 17 (W. by S.) from London, on the road to Bath. The population is returned with the several parishes. This place, which is of great antiquity, is supposed to have been the station Ad Pontes of Antoninus: it derives its name from the river Colne, by which it is separated from Middlesex, and is intersected by several branches of that river, over each of which is a small bridge. The town consists principally of one long street; the houses are in general neatly built, and of respectable appearance. The trade principally arises from its situation as a great thoroughfare, which has made it a considerable posting town. The market has been long discontinued, and the market-house and the chapel, which were inconveniently situated in the narrower part of the town, have been removed by the commissioners of the turnpike-roads, who have rebuilt the chapel, a neat modern edifice, dedicated to St. Mary, on the opposite side of the road, in the parish of Horton. The fairs are, April 5th and May 3rd, for cattle and horses. The government, by charter of Henry VIII., which was renewed in the reign of Charles I., is vested in a bailiff and burgesses. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, and in the patronage of the Trustees of the late George Townsend, Esq., for Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford. There is a place of worship for Baptists; and there are several charitable bequests for distribution among the poor. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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