Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

COLDEN-COMMON, a chapelry in Owslebury and Twyford parishes, Hants; near the Southwestern railway, 4 miles S by E of Winchester. It was constituted in 1844. Post town, Owslebury, under Winchester. Pop., 652. Houses, 133. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £130.* Patron, alternately the Incumbent of Owslebury and the Vicar of Twyford.

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Travel writing

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