Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pontisbright (or Chapel)

Pontisbright (or Chapel), par. (ry. sta. Chapel), Essex, on river Colne, 7 miles NW. of Colchester, 1176 ac., pop. 363; P.O., called Chapple.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chappel Ch/CP       Essex AncC
Place names: CHAPEL     |     CHAPPLE     |     PONTISBRIGHT     |     PONTISBRIGHT OR CHAPEL
Place: Chappel

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