Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SWANMORE

SWANMORE, a chapelry in Ryde parish, Isle of Wight; near Ryde r. station. It was constituted in 1865; and its Post town is Ryde. Pop., about 900. The living is a p curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported.* Patron, Mrs. E. Wix. The church was partly built in 1862; and is in the early English style, cruciform, with central tower.


(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: Ryde CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Swanmore

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