Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINTERBOURNE-DOWN

WINTERBOURNE-DOWN, a chapelry in Winterbourne parish, Gloucester; 2¾ miles ENE of Filton r. station, and 5½ NE by N of Bristol. It was constituted in 1861; and its Post town is Winterbourne, under Bristol. Pop., 750. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £96.* Patron, St. John s College, Oxford. The church contains 250 sittings.


(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: Winterbourne CP/AP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Winterbourne Down

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