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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST SOMERTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH and WELLS		Somerton, and Long Sutton; and the p. curacies of Nether Ham, Ash, Muchelney, West Chinnock, Stoke-sub-Hamden, and Tintinhull	Imperial
  BICESTER		BICESTER -popularly Bister-a town, two townships, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district in Oxford. The town stands in	Imperial
  ELY		Somerton, Stanstead, Thorpe-Morieux, Great Waldingfield, and Whatfield; the vicarages of Acton, Assington, Bures-St. Mary, Great Cornard, Edwardston, Stoke-by-Nayland, Sudbury-All-Saints, Ballingdon, Little Waldingfield, and Wiston; and the p. curacies of Kersey, Levenheath, Lindsey, Nayland, Sudbury-St. Gregory, Sudbury-St. Peter, and Wattisham. The deanery of Thedwaster contains the rectories of Ampton, Bradfield-Combust, Bradfield-St. Clare, Bradfield-St. George, Rushbrooke, Drinkston, Felsham, Fornham-St. Genieve, Gedding, Hessett, Rattlesden, Rougham, Stanningfield, West	Imperial
  FLEGG		Somerton, West Somerton, Martham, Rollesby, Burgh-St. Margaret-and-St. Mary, Billockby, Clippesby, Ashby, Oby, Thirne, and Repps-with-Bastwick	Imperial
  HORSEY-NEXT-THE-SEA		West Somerton, under Yarmouth. Acres, 1,830; of which 122 are water. Real property, £1, 652. Pop., 206. Houses	Imperial
  KINGWESTON		Somerton, and 4½ SSW of West Pennard r. station. Post town, Somerton, under Taunton. Acres, 1, 166. Real property	Imperial
  LANGPORT		Somerton, containing the parishes of Somerton, Compton-Dunden, Kingweston, Barton-St. David, Keinton-Mandeville, Babcary, Charlton-Adam, Charlton-Mackrell, and Kingsdon; and the sub-district of Curry-Rivell, containing the parishes of Curry-Rivell, Drayton, Swell, Fivehead, Curry-Mallett, Beer-Crocombe, Isle-Abbots, Isle-Brewers, South Bradon, Puckington, Barrington, and Earnshill, and the extra-parochial tracts of Nidon, West	Imperial
  LINCOLNSHIRE, or LINCOLN		LINCOLNSHIRE , or LINCOLN, a maritime county on the E of England. It is bounded on the N and NE, by	Imperial
  NORFOLK		West Acre House, West Harling Hall, West Somerton Hall, Weston House, Westwick House, Whitehall, Whitlingham Hall, Whitwell Hall, Witchingham Hall	Imperial
  OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford, or Oxon		west-ward to Abingdon; proceeds thence, within Berks, to the Isis contiguous to Oxford city; and crosses to the W station at Oxford. Another line, continuous with the last, goes northward to the vicinity of Water-Eaton; proceedsthence, north-north-eastward, past Islip, to Bicester; and goes thence, north-eastward, into Bucks and towards Bletchley. Another line deflects from the preceding 1½ mile N of Oxford; goes northward, up the valley of the Cherwell, past Hampton-Gray, Tackley, Lower Heyford, and Somerton	Imperial
  SOMERTON		SOMERTON , a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Somerset. The town stands on an eminence adjacent to the river Cary, 5 miles ENE of Langport r. station; was a residence of the West	Imperial
  Somerton, East		Somerton, East , par., Norfolk, adjacent to West Somerton, 798 ac., pop. 47.	Bartholomew
  SOMERTON (East)		SOMERTON (East) , a parish in Flegg district, Norfolk; 8¾ miles NNW of Yarmouth r. station. Post town, West Somerton	Imperial
  Somerton, West		Somerton, West , par. and vil., Norfolk, 8½ miles NW. of Yarmouth, 1189 ac., pop. 232; P.O.	Bartholomew
  SOMERTON (West)		SOMERTON (West) , a parish in Flegg district, Norfolk; 8¾ miles NW by N of Yarmouth r. station. It has a post	Imperial
  West Somerton		West Somerton , 8½ miles NW. of Yarmouth, Norfolk; P.O. See SOMERTON, WEST.	Bartholomew

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