Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SWINDON

SWINDON, a chapelry in Wombourn parish, Stafford; on the Stafford and Birmingham canal, 4¼ miles NW of Brierley-Hill r. station Post town, Wombourn, under Wolverhampton. Pop., about 600. The living is a p curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Wombourn.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Swindon CP/ParLib       Wombourn CP/AP       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Swindon

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