Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bemerton

Bemerton, chapelry, Fugglestone St Peter par., S. Wilts, 1½ mile NW. of Salisbury; George Herbert, the poet (1593-1632), John Norris, poet and metaphysician (1657-1711), and Archdeacon Coxe, traveller and historian (1747-1828), were rectors.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bemerton CP/Ch       Fugglestone St Peter CP/AP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Bemerton

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