Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Quantoxhead, East

Quantoxhead, East, coast par. and vil., Somerset, 4½ miles E. of Watchet, 2582 ac. (280 water), pop. 238; Miss Biffen (1794-1850), the miniature-painter, born without hands or arms, was a native.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: East Quantoxhead AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place names: EAST QUANTOXHEAD     |     QUANTOXHEAD     |     QUANTOXHEAD EAST
Place: East Quantoxhead

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