Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOSSINGTON

BOSSINGTON, a parish in Stockbridge district, Hants; on the river Anton, and on the Roman road from Winchester to Sarum, adjacent to the Andover railway, 3½ miles SSW of Stockbridge. Post Town, Broughton, under Winchester. Acres, 615. Real property, £722. Pop., 45. Houses, 9. The property is all in one estate. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory o Broughton, in the diocese of Winchester. The church was rebuilt in 1839; and is a handsome edifice, of stone and flint, in the early English style.


(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: Bossington CP/Ch       Stockbridge RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Bossington

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