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Place name County Entry Source BATH and WELLS Somerset Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Tellisford, Wanstrow, Whatley, and Writhlington; the vicarages of Buckland-Dinham, Chewton-Mendip, Cloford, Frome, Wellow, Kilmersdon Imperial CIRENCESTER Gloucestershire CIRENCESTER-popularly Ciceter , -a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred in Gloucester. The town stands Imperial EVERCREECH Somerset Fosse way, 3¾ miles SE by S of Shepton-Mallet; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Bath. The parish includes also the chapelry of Chester-blade, and the hamlets of Bagbury, Southwood, and Stoney-Stratton Imperial FOSSE WAY Devon
LincolnshireFOSSE WAY , an ancient British and Roman road from the S coast of Devon on the English channel, north-eastward to the N coast of Lincolnshire on the Humber estuary. It began at Moridunum, near Seaton and Axmouth; passed through Ilchester, Stratton Imperial HOLCOMBE Somerset Fosse way, 6 miles NE by N of Shepton-Mallet r. station. Post town, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, under Bath Imperial LITTON Somerset Stratton-on-the-Fosse, under Bath. Acres, 1,117. Real property, £2,517. Pop., in 1851,421; in 1861,313. Houses Imperial PETHERTON (South) Somerset Fosse way and the river Parret, 3 miles S W by W of Martock r. station, and 4½ N by W of Crewkerne; and has a post-office‡ under Ilminster, a banking office, a hotel, a police station, a church, three dissenting chapels, and an endowed national school, with £60 a year. The church is cruciform, and variously early English, decorated, and perpendicular; has a centraloctagonal tower; was restored in 1861; and contains three brasses. A weekly market is held on Saturday, but has nearly become extinct; and a sheep fair is heldon 6 July Imperial Stratton on the Fosse Somerset Stratton on the Fosse , par. and vil., Somerset - par., 1148 ac., pop. 277; vil., 5 miles NE. of Shepton Mallet Bartholomew STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE Somerset STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE , a parish, with a village, in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; on the Fosse-way, 3¼ miles Imperial
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