Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOMERFORD (Great or Broad)

SOMERFORD (Great or Broad), a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Malmsbury district, Wilts: on the river Avon, 7 miles NNE of Chippenham r. station. It has a post-office under Chippenham. Acres, 1,770. Rated property, £2,520. Pop., 532. Houses, 114. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £447.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1865.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Somerford CP/AP       Malmesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place names: BROAD SOMERFORD     |     GREAT SOMERFORD     |     SOMERFORD     |     SOMERFORD BROAD     |     SOMERFORD GREAT     |     SOMERFORD GREAT OR BROAD
Place: Great Somerford

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