Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FISHPONDS

FISHPONDS, a chapelry in Stapleton parish, Gloucester; near the West Midland railway, 3¼ miles NE of Bristol. It has a station on the railway, and a post office ‡ under Bristol. The acreage and pop. are returned with the parish. The rated property amounts to £10, 955, and is not much divided; but there are many good villas. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Stapleton. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stapleton CP/AP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Fishponds

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