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.
TIMSBURY, a parish, with a village, in Clutton district, Somerset; 2¾ miles NNW of Radstock r. station. It has a post-office under Bath. Acres, 1,148. Real property, £8,799; of which £3,684 are in mines. Pop., 1,551. Houses, 323. T. House is the seat of S. S. Samborne, Esq.; and Vale House, of J. Langford, Esq. Coal is largely worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £390.* Patron, Baliol College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt mainly in 1825, partly in 1852. There are Independent and Wesleyan chapels and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Timsbury CP/AP Clutton RegD/PLU Somerset AncC |
| Place: | Timsbury |
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