Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTON (North)

NEWTON (North), a chapelry in North Petherton parish, Somerset; on the Taunton canal, near the Bristoland Exeter railway, 3½ miles S E of Bridgewater r. station. Post-town, Bridgewater. Real property and pop., returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £70. Patron, Sir T. D. Acland, Bart.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: North Petherton CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place names: NEWTON     |     NEWTON NORTH     |     NORTH NEWTON
Place: North Newton

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