Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOOLAVINGTON

WOOLAVINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Bridgewater district, Somerset; 2¾ miles WSW of Edington r. station, and 4½ NW of Bridgewater. Post town, Bridgewater. Acres, 1,725. Real property, £4,640. Pop., 415. Houses, 90. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with Puriton, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £361.* Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Woolavington AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Woolavington

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