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CORSTON, a tything-chapelry in St. Paul-Malmsbury parish, Wilts; 2¼ miles SSW of Malmsbury, and 7 N by E of Chippenham r. station. Post town, Malmsbury, under Chippenham. Pop., 315. Houses, 66. The property is all in one estate. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Malmsbury, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is perpendicular English, and has an elegant bell-turret.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a tything-chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Wiltshire AncC |
Place: | Corston |
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