Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHINNOCK (East)

CHINNOCK (East), a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; on the Yeovil and Exeter railway, near Sutton-Bingham station, 4 miles WSW of Yeovil. It has a post office under Yeovil. Acres, 1, 320. Real property, £2, 945. Pop., 552. Houses, 122. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £140.* Patron, the lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there is an endowed school.


(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 Chinnock AP/CP       Yeovil RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: CHINNOCK     |     CHINNOCK EAST     |     EAST CHINNOCK
Place: East Chinnock

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