Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FIGHELDEAN, or Fittledean

FIGHELDEAN, or Fittledean, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; on the river Avon, 4¼ miles N-of Amesbury, and 9 S of Pewsey r. station. It includes the hamlet of Ablington; and its post town is Duddington, under Salisbury. Acres, 5, 279. Rated property, £4, 326. Pop., 472. Houses, 94. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Salisbury. Value, £310.* Patron, the Bishop of S. The church is ancient, and was repaired in 1859.


(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: Figheldean CP/AP       Amesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: FIGHELDEAN     |     FIGHELDEAN OR FITTLEDEAN     |     FITTLEDEAN
Place: Figheldean

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