Place:


Beer Crocombe  Somerset

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beer Crocombe like this:

BEER-CROCOMBE, a parish in Langford district, Somerset; on Chard canal, 4½ miles NNW of Ilminster, and 6 SSE of Durston r. station. Post Town, Isle-Abbots, under Taunton. Acres, 871. Real property, £1,534. Pop., 175. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £195. Patron, the Earl of Egremont. The church is good.

Beer Crocombe through time

Beer Crocombe is now part of South Somerset district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Somerset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Beer Crocombe itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Beer Crocombe in South Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12456

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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