Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLEEVE

CLEEVE, a chapelry in Yatton parish, Somerset; on the Bristol and Exeter railway, near Yatton station, 7½ miles N of Axbridge. It has a post office under Yatton, Somerset. It was constituted in 1843. Pop., 406. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £75. Patron, the Vicar of Yatton. The church is very good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cleeve Ch/CP       Yatton AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Cleeve

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