Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ZEAL (South)

ZEAL (South), a village in South Tawton parish, Devon; 4¼ miles ESE of Okehampton. It was once a borough and a market-town; and it has a fine granite cross, a Wesleyan chapel, and an old school house supposed to have been a Roman Catholic chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: South Tawton AP/CP       Devon AncC
Place names: SOUTH ZEAL     |     ZEAL     |     ZEAL SOUTH
Place: South Zeal

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