Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALLERTON-CHAPEL

ALLERTON-CHAPEL, a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset; 4 miles N of the Glastonbury railway, and 3 SSW of Axbridge. It has a post office under Weston super-Mare; and contains the hamlets of Arston and Stone-Allerton. Acres, 1,169. Real property, with Churchland and Upper Weare, £13,268. Pop., 292. Houses, 56. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £223. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church was restored in 1860.


(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: Axbridge RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Chapel Allerton

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