Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COTHELSTONE

COTHELSTONE, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; among the Quantock hills, near the Taunton and Watchet railway, 2 miles NE of Bishops-Lydeard r. station, and 6½ NNW of Taunton. Post town, Bishops-Lydeard, under Taunton. Acres, 906. Real property, £1, 286. Pop., 107. Houses, 24. The property is divided among a few. Cothelstone Park is the seat of E. J. Esdaile, Esq. Cothelstone old manor-house, now a farm-house, is an ivy-clad edifice, in a singular style of architecture, with series of pillars decorating the front, and forming large oblong windows; and has the arms of Stawel over the doorway. Cothelstone Hill is 1, 250 feet high; and commands a very extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £58. Patron, the Vicar of Kingston. The church contains some ancient monuments; and is good.


(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: Cothelstone CP/Ch       Taunton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Cothelstone

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