Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRANMORE (East)

CRANMORE (East), a parish in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; on the East Somerset railway, under the Mendip hills, near Cranmore r. station, 4 miles E of Shepton-Mallet. Post town, West Cranmore, under Shepton-Mallet. Acres, 1, 054. Real property, £1, 354. Pop., 70. Houses, 13. Oolite, of fine quality for building, is quarried. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Doulting, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church was rebuilt in 1850.


(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: East Cranmore CP/Ch       Shepton Mallet RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: CRANMORE     |     CRANMORE EAST     |     EAST CRANMORE
Place: East Cranmore

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