Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DOWLISH-WAKE, or East Dowlish

DOWLISH-WAKE, or East Dowlish, a parish in Chard district, Somerset; near the Chard canal, 2 miles SE by S of Ilminster r. station, and 4 NE of Chard. Post town, Ilminster. Acres, together with West Dowlish, 1, 282. Real property, with West Dowlish, £2, 894. Pop., 319. Houses, 75. The property, inclusive of West Dowlish, is all in one estate. Limestone is quarried. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of West Dowlish, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £356. Patron, W. Speke, Esq. The church was rebuilt in a handsome manner, in 1862.


(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: Dowlish Wake CP/AP       Chard RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: DOWLISH WAKE     |     DOWLISH WAKE OR EAST DOWLISH     |     EAST DOWLISH
Place: Dowlish Wake

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