Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Boscombe

Boscombe.-- par., S. Wilts, 4 miles SE. of Amesbury, 1688 ac., pop. 115; P.O. Richard Hooker was rector from 1591 to 1595.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Boscombe CP/AP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Boscombe

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