Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EASTOVER

EASTOVER, a chapelry in Bridgewater parish, Somerset; near Bridgewater town and r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its post town is Bridgewater. Pop., 4, 792. Houses, 899. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is good.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place: Eastover

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