In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Countess Wear like this:
COUNTESS WEIR, a chapelry in Topsham parish, Devon: near the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 3 miles E by S of Exeter. It was constituted in 1844. Post town, Exeter. Pop., 508. Houses, 95. There are a few gentlemen's seats and a paper mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £100. Patron, the Incumbent of Topsham. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a small hell-turret; and was built in 1838.
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Countess Wear through time
Countess Wear is now part of Exeter district. Click here for graphs and data of how Exeter has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Countess Wear itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Countess Wear, in Exeter and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24266
Date accessed: 30th September 2024
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