Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CATCOTT

CATCOTT, a chapelry in Moorlinch parish, Somerset; 3 miles SSW of Shapwick r. station, and 7 ENE of Bridgewater. It includes part of Burtle hamlet. Post Town, Bridgewater. Acres, 2,256. Real property, £3,701. Pop., 740. Houses, 159. The property is much subdivided. The living is a donative in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £100.* Patron, A. Henniker, Esq. The church is Norman. There are two Methodist chapels, a free school, a national school, and charities £60.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Catcott CP/Ch       Moorlinch CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Catcott

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