Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CUTCOMBE

CUTCOMBE, a parish in Williton district, Somerset; 5¼ miles SW by S of Dunster, and 10 SW by W of Watchet r. station. Post town, Ludborough, under Taunton. Acres, 7, 231. Real property, £4, 970. Pop., 793. Houses, 158. The property is divided among a few. Lofty hills are in the north and in the south; and Dunkerry Beacon, 1, 700 feet high, with a fine view, is in the west. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy. of Luxborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £214.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English and good. A school has £35 from endowment; and other charities £19.


(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: Cutcombe CP/AP       Williton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Cutcombe

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