Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EDINGTON

EDINGTON, a chapelry in Moorlinch parish, Somerset; near the Somerset and Dorset railway, 5½ miles ENE of Bridgewater. It has a station on the railway; contains the hamlet of Burtle; and its post town is Chilton, under Bridgewater. Acres, 2, 167. Real property, £4, 647. Pop., 432. Houses, 100. The living is a p. curacy united with the p. curacy of Chilton-on-Polden, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £120.* Patron, the Rev. R. J. Luscombe. The church is ancient.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Edington Ch/CP       Moorlinch CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Edington

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