Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EARLS-COURT

EARLS-COURT, a chapelry in Kensington parish, Middlesex; in the south-western outskirts of London, immediately S of Kensington and NW of New Brompton. It was constituted in 1858; and it has a post office‡ under Brompton, London SW. Pop., 5, 264. Houses, 707. Earls-Court House was the seat of Sir R. Blackmore. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. J. D. Claxton.


(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: Kensington Vest/AP/CP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Earls Court

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