Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TATWORTH

TATWORTH, a chapelry in Chard parish, Somerset; 2 miles S of Chard r. station. Post town, Chard. Pop., 925. Parrocks Lodge is the seat of J.Langdon, Esq. There are woollen cloth mills. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Chard. The church was built in 1851.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chard AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place: Tatworth

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