Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WITHYPOOLE

WITHYPOOLE, a parish, with a village, in the district of Tiverton and county of Somerset; adjoining Exmoor forest, 11 miles NW of Bampton r. station. Post town, Exford, under Taunton. Acres, 3,630. Real property, £1,797. Pop., 307. Houses, 60. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Hawkridge. The church is early English.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Withypool Ch/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Withypool

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