Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EMBORROW, or Emborough

EMBORROW, or Emborough, a parish in Shepton Mallet district, Somerset; under the Mendip hills, 5 miles NE of Wells r. station. It includes the tything of Whitnell. Post town, Chewton-Mendip, under Bath. Acres, 2, 039. Real property, £1, 737. Pop., 178. Houses, 41. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chewton-Mendip, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is small.


(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: Emborough Ch/CP       Shepton Mallet RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: EMBOROUGH     |     EMBORROW     |     EMBORROW OR EMBOROUGH
Place: Emborough

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