A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SHEPSCOMBE, a chapelry, with a village, in Painswick parish, Gloucester; 5 miles NE by N of Stroud r. station. It has a post-office under Stroud. Real property, £2,821; of which £12 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 633; in 1861, 510. Houses, 138. The property is divided among a few. S. House is the seat of P. Matthews, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £130.* Patron, the Vicar of Painswick. The church is modern; and there is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Painswick CP/AP Gloucestershire AncC |
| Place: | Sheepscombe |
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