Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STANTON-PRIOR

STANTON-PRIOR, a parish in Keynsham district, Somerset; at Stantonbury Hill, 3 miles S of Saltford r. station, and 5 WSW of Bath. Post town, Bristol. Acres, 841. Real property, £2,629. Pop., 136. Houses, 32. The manor belonged anciently to Bath priory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £182.* Patron, W. G. Langton, Esq. The church is old but good.


(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: Stanton Prior AP/CP       Keynsham RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Stanton Prior

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