Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WILLIAN

WILLIAN, a parish in Hitchin district, Herts; 2½ miles E of Hitchin r. station. Post town, Hitchin. Acres, 1,854. Real property, £3,538. Pop., 281. Houses, 59. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £588.* Patron, F. Pym, Esq. The church is ancient but good. There is a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Willian CP/AP       Hitchin RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place: Willian

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