Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOATHILL

GOATHILL, a parish in the district of Sherborne and county of Somerset; on the verge of the county, adjacent to the London, Yeovil, and Exeter railway, 2½ miles E of Sherborne. Post town, Milbourne Port, under Sherborne. Acres, 300. Rated property, £270. Pop., 57. Houses, 10. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Valne, £90. Patron, G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The church is old but good.


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

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

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