Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HURCOTT

HURCOTT, a tything in Somerton parish, Somerset; 1½ mile NE of Somerton. Real property, £535. Hurcott hill here is thickly clothed with the woods of KingWeston, and has quarries of alabaster.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Somerton CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Hurcott

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