Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DEVERILL-HILL

DEVERILL-HILL, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; on the Deverill rivulet, 3½ miles S of Warminster town and r. station. Post town, Deverill-Longbridge, under Warminster. Acres, 1, 420. Real property, £1, 792. Pop., 149. Houses, 29. The property is divided between two. The Ludlows were some time seated here; and General Ludlow was born in the vicinity. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £76. Patron, the Prebendary thereof. The church has a fine old monument of one of the Ludlows; and is very good.


(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: Warminster RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Hill Deverill

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