Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTEND

WESTEND, a chapelry in South Stoneham parish, Hants; near Portswood r. station, and 3¼ miles NNE of Southampton. It was constituted in 1840; and it has a post-office under Southampton. Pop., 2,141. Houses, 418. There is a paper-mill. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £330. Patron, the Rector of Southampton-St. Mary.


(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: South Stoneham AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place: West End

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