Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TELLISFORD, or Telsford

TELLISFORD, or Telsford, a parish in Frome district, Somerset; 3 miles S by E of Freshford r. station. Post town, Beckington, under Bath. Acres, 757. Real property, 1,188. Pop., 119. Houses, 23. There is a fulling-mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £173.* Patron, the Rev.W. Baker. The church was recently restored.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Tellisford CP/AP       Frome RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: TELLISFORD     |     TELLISFORD OR TELSFORD     |     TELSFORD
Place: Tellisford

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