A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Buckingham, 1804

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Ancestry.com. A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Buckingham, 1804 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: John Britton, Esq. F.S.A. and Mr. E. W. Brayley. A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Buckingham, 1804. London, England: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones and George Cowie and Co.

About A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Buckingham, 1804

The subtitle for this volume on historical Buckingham provides a good description of the book’s contents: ‘An Account of Its Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Churches, Monuments, Public Edifices, Picturesque Scenery, the Residence of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. Accompanied with Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to whom this County has given Birth’. Nine engravings and a map are included. This is an ideal reference work for locating where your ancestors lived in early-1800s Buckingham and getting a sense of their community and surroundings.

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