Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENDFORD

HENDFORD, a chapelry in Yeovil parish, Somerset; on the river Yeo, adjacent to Dorset, in the vicinity of Yeovil town and r. station. It was constituted in 1848. Post town, Yeovil. Pop., 3, 997. Houses, 716. Hendford Manor House is the seat of Edwin Newman, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern; and there is an Independent chapel.


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

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

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