Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GRIMSTEAD (EAST)

GRIMSTEAD (EAST), a chapelry in West Dean parish, Wilts; on the Bishopstoke and Salisbury railway, near Dean r. station, and near the binndary with Hants, 5¼ miles ESE of Salisbury. Post town, West Dean, under Romsey. Acres, 930. Real property, £1, 153. Pop., 136. house, 33. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of West Dean, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is a modern edifice, in the later English style.


(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: East Grimstead CP/Ch       West Dean CP/AP       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: EAST GRIMSTEAD     |     GRIMSTEAD     |     GRIMSTEAD EAST
Place: East Grimstead

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