Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stogumber

Stogumber, market town and par. with ry. sta., Somerset, 5½ miles SE. of Watchet and 14 miles NW. of Taunton, 5777 ac., pop. 1242; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Saturday. It is famous for a pale ale made from a medicinal spring, and has a cattle fair.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Stogumber AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Stogumber

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