Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHEW

CHEW, a hundred in Somerset. It contains Chew-Magna and Chew-Stoke parishes, and six others. Acres, 15, 182. Pop., 6, 200. Houses, 1, 322.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place: Chew Magna

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