Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OAKHILL

OAKHILL, a chapelry in Ashwick, Shepton-Mallet, and Stoke-Lane parishes, Somerset; 2 miles N E of Shepton-Mallet. It has a post-office under Bath. Pop., 445. The living is a vicarage. Value, £164.* Patron, the Rector of Shepton. The church was built in 1862.


(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: Stoke St Michael CP/Ch       Somerset AncC
Place: Oakhill

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