Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOMINGTON

HOMINGTON, a parish in Alderbury district, Wilts; on a branch of the river Avon, 3½ miles SW by S of Salisbury r. station. Post town, Salisbury. Acres, 1, 340. Rated property, £850. Pop., 155. Houses, 36. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £57. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Homington CP/AP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Homington

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