Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Downhead

Downhead.-- par., mid. Somerset, 5 miles NE. of Shepton Mallet, 1525 ac., pop. 178.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Downhead Ch/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Downhead

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