Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BISHOPS-HULL

BISHOPS-HULL, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; adjacent to the Bristol and Exeter railway, 1½ mile W of Taunton. It has a post office under Taunton. Acres, 1,341. Real property, £10,567. Pop., 1,614. Houses, 321. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £222-Patron, the Rev. W. P. Williams. St. John's is a separate vicarage, formed in 1864. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £60.


(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: Bishops Hull Ch/CP       Taunton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Bishops Hull

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