Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEPTON

BEPTON, a parish in Midhurst district, Sussex; 2½ miles SW of Midhurst r. station, and 5½ ESE of Petersfield. Post Town, Midhurst. Acres, 1,224. Real protron, Prince of Wales. Dr. Cowper, chaplain to George II., and father of Cowper the poet, was rector. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £127. Patron, the Earl of Egmont.


(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: Bepton CP/AP       Midhurst RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Bepton

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