Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOODFORD

WOODFORD, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; on the river Avon, 3 miles E by N of Wishford r. station, and 4½ NNW of Salisbury. Post town, Salisbury. Acres, 2,780. Rated property, £3,236. Pop., 500. Houses, 116. The property is divided among a few. A palace of the Bishops of Salisbury was here. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Wilsford. 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: Woodford AP/CP       Amesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Woodford

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