Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOKE-PERO

STOKE-PERO, a parish in Williton district, Somerset; on the E side of Exmoor, 13 miles W of Watchet r. station. Post town, Minehead, under Taunton. Acres, 3,422. Pop., 51. Houses, 10. The manor belongs to Sir T. D. Acland and Mr. W. Tamlyn. Red deer are plentiful. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £92. Patron, J. Quick, Esq.


(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: Stoke Pero AP/CP       Williton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Stoke Pero

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