Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COKER (West)

COKER (West), a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; between the railways from Yeovil toward Durston and Exeter, 3 miles W by S of Yeovil. It has a post office under Yeovil. Acres, 1, 299. Real property, £3, 675. Pop., 1, 012. Houses, 206. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £430.* Patron, I . Raven, Esq. The church is later English. There are a national school and an alms-house.


(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: West Coker AP/CP       Yeovil RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: COKER     |     COKER WEST     |     WEST COKER
Place: West Coker

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