Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTLE

BURTLE, a chapelry in Moorlinch parish, Somerset: 3½ miles SSW of Edington-Road r. station, and 5½ ENE of Bridgewater. Post Town, Chilton, under Bridgewater. Pop., 248. Houses, 47. It was constituted in 1856. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £100. Patron, miss Field. The church is very good.


(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: Moorlinch CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Burtle

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