A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BURTON-PYNSENT, a tything in Drayton, Curry-Rivell, and Fivehead parishes, Somerset; on the downs, 2 miles SW of Langport. Pop., 43. The estate belonged to the Pynsents; but was bequeathed to William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham; and belongs now to Colonel Pinney. The Earl of Chatham occasionally resided here; and he erected a column 140 feet high, popularly called the Burton steeple, to the memory of Sir William Pynsent. This crowns an eminence, with a fine view; and a funeral urn, to his own memory, erected by his Countess, stands in the grounds of the mansion.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a tything" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Fivehead AP/CP Somerset AncC |
| Place: | Burton Pynsent |
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