A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
GRATELEY, a parish in Andover district, Hants; on the London, Yeovil, and Exeter railway, near the boundary with Wilts, 6½ miles WSW of Andover. It has a station on the railway; and its post town is Andover. Acres, 1, 541. Real property, with Quarney, £2, 522. Rated property of G. alone, £1, 229. Pop., 176. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. A village once stood here which dated from the Saxon times, was the place of a witenagemote under Athelstane, and is traditionally said to have had five churches. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £284. Patron, the Rev. Baron Paravicini. The church is early English and good; and has some fragments of very fine early English stained glass, the rest of which was removed to Salisbury cathedral. There are a free school, and charities £40.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Grateley CP/AP Andover RegD/PLU Hampshire AncC |
| Place: | Grateley |
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