Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHARTER-HOUSE-ON-MENDIP

CHARTER-HOUSE-ON-MENDIP, an extra-parochial ville in Axbridge district, Somerset; adjacent to Blagdon parish, 5 miles E by N of Axbridge. Acres, 2,410. Pop., 82. Houses, 16. It had anciently a cell to Witham Carthusian priory; and it is still ecclesiastically connected with Witham-Friary parish.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an extra-parochial ville"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Axbridge RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Charterhouse

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