Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wookey

Wookey, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Somerset - par., 3420 ac., pop. 1017; vil., 2 miles W. of Wells; P.O., and P.O. at Wookey Hole, a noted cavern 2 miles from vil., and said to communicate with the Cheddar cliffs. The Wookey Hole Paperworks are in vicinity.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wookey CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Wookey

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