Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FORSCOTE, or Foxcote

FORSCOTE, or Foxcote, a parish in Frome district, Somerset; near the Bath canal, 6½ miles SW by S of Bath r. station. Post town, Midsomer-Norton, under Bath. Acres, 580. Real property, £799. Pop., 46. Houses, 11. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £150.* Patron, Sir J. Smyth, Bart. The church is recent.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Foxcote AP/CP       Frome RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: FORSCOTE     |     FORSCOTE OR FOXCOTE     |     FOXCOTE
Place: Foxcote

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