Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ZEALS, or Zeals-Green

ZEALS, or Zeals-Green, a chapelry, with a village, in Mere parish, Wilts; 1½ mile WSW of Mere, and 4 NNW of Gillingham r. station. Post town, Mere, under Bath. Real property, with Stourton, £5,654. Pop., 559. Houses, 134. Zeals house is the ancient seat of the Grove family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £290.* Patron, the Vicar of Mere.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Mere AP/CP       Zeals CP/Ch       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: ZEALS     |     ZEALS GREEN     |     ZEALS OR ZEALS GREEN
Place: Zeals

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