Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTON

WESTON, a tything and a chapelry in St. Mary-Extra parish, Hants. The tything lies 2 miles ESE of Southampton r. station. Post town, Southampton. Real property, £5,446. Pop., 1,263. The chapelry was constituted in 1865. Pop., 260. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £40. Patron, the Rev. W. P. Hulton. The church was built in 1865: and is a handsome edifice, with a spire.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: St Mary Extra CP/Ch       Hampshire AncC
Place: Weston

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