Quainton, Buckinghamshire

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Quainton is a village in Buckinghamshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Quainton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Quainton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Quainton (or Quinton), par., township, and vil. (ry. stations Quainton and Quainton Road), Bucks - par., 5346 ac., pop. 865; township, 3805 ac., pop. 804; vil., 6½ miles NW. of Aylesbury; P.O., called Queynton; Quainton Hill is famous for its fossils.

Quainton in the Domesday Book

A village in Ashendon hundred, in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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