Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRATTON-SEYMOUR, or Bratton-St.-Maur

BRATTON-SEYMOUR, or Bratton-St.-Maur, a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; 2½ miles NW of wincanton r. station, and 3½ SE of Castle-Cary. Post Town, Wincanton, under Bath. Acres, 1,093. Pop., 80. Houses, 21. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £161. Patrons, Sir M. Lopes and J. Hodges, Esq., alternately. The church stands on a green eminence overhanging a dell.


(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: Bratton Seymour AP/CP       Wincanton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: BRATTON SEYMOUR     |     BRATTON SEYMOUR OR BRATTON ST MAUR     |     BRATTON ST MAUR
Place: Bratton Seymour

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