Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLEMORE, or Colmer

COLEMORE, or Colmer, a parish in Petersfield district, Hants; near Wolmere forest, 5¼ miles S by W of Alton r. station. Post town, Newton-Vallance, under Alton. Acres, 1, 485. Real property, £1, 049. Pop., 151. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The surface is hilly, and commands extensive views. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Priors-Dean, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £550.* Patron, Mrs. Hervey. The church is good. The learned Greaves was a native; and his father was rector.


(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: Colemore CP/AP       Petersfield RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place names: COLEMORE     |     COLEMORE OR COLMER     |     COLMER
Place: Colemore

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