A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CADBURY (North), a village and a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset. The village stands on an eminence, 2 miles NE of Sparkford r. station, and 5 WSW of Wincanton; and has a post office under Bath. The parish includes also the hamlets of Galhampton and Woolston. Acres, 2,810. Real property, £7,220. Pop., 997. Houses, 236. The manor belonged to the Newmarshes, the Botreauxes, and the Hungerfords; and passed to the Bennetts. The manor house was built in 1581, by the third Earl of Huntingdon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £700.* Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church was built, in the time of Henry VI., by the Botreauxes; and contains several ancient monuments. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school. Ralph Cudworth was rector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | North Cadbury CP/AP Wincanton RegD/PLU Somerset AncC |
| Place names: | CADBURY | CADBURY NORTH | NORTH CADBURY |
| Place: | North Cadbury |
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