Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARDINGTON-MANDEVILLE

HARDINGTON-MANDEVILLE, a village and a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset. The village stands near the Sutton-Bingham station of the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 2 miles from the boundary with Dorset, and 4 SW of Yeovil; and has a post-office, of the name of Hardington, under Yeovil. The parish comprises 2,631 acres. Real property, £2,839. Pop., 668. Houses, 140. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Lord Portman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £471. * Patron, Rev. W. Vassall. The church, with the exception of the tower, was re-built in 1864; and is in the decorated English style.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hardington Mandeville AP/CP       Yeovil RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: HARDINGTON     |     HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE
Place: Hardington Mandeville

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