Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Rowbarton like this:

Rowbarton, eccl. dist., Taunton St James par., Somerset, pop. 2204.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Rowbarton by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Holway 0 2
Bishops Hull 0 2
West Monkton 0 3
Kingston 0 3
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Stoke St Mary 0 2
Ruishton 0 2
Trull 0 2
Creech St Michael 0 2
Bradford 0 2
Orchard Portman 1 2
Hillfarrance 0 2
Thurlbear 0 2
Thorn Falcon 0 2
Oake 0 2
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