Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARROW (North)

BARROW (North), a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; adjacent to the Wilts and Somerset railway, 3 miles SW of Castle-Cary. Post Town, Castle-Cary, under Bath. Acres, 751.-Real property, with South Barrow, £2,481. Pop., 114. Houses, 24. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £148.* Patron, Lord Portman. The church is good.


(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: North Barrow AP/CP       Wincanton RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: BARROW     |     BARROW NORTH     |     NORTH BARROW
Place: North Barrow

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