Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fordingbridge

Fordingbridge.-- market town and par. with ry. sta., S. Hants, on river Avon, 12½ miles S. of Salisbury, 6340 ac., pop. 2962; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank.Market-day, Friday; has flax-spinning and mfrs. of canvas.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Fordingbridge CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Fordingbridge

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