Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DRAYCOTT-FOLIATT

DRAYCOTT-FOLIATT, a parish in Highworth district, Wilts; 4½ miles SSE of Swindon, and 5½ SSE of Swindon r. station. Post town, Chisledon, under Swindon. Acres, 702. Real property, £1, 075. Pop., 27. Houses, 5. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £165. Patron, A. Goddart, Esq. There is no church. Bishop Buckeridge, the writer against Bellarmine, was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Swindon and Highworth RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Draycot Foliat

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