Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LYNCOMBE AND WIDCOMBE

LYNCOMBE AND WIDCOMBE, a parish, which is also a sub-district, in Bath district, Somerset; on the river Avon and the Great Western railway, within Bath city. Acres, 1,845. Real property, £32,205; of which £204 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851,9,974; in 1861, 9,900. Houses, 1,715. The parish is ecclesiastically cut into two sections, the one Lyncombe, the other Widcombe. Pop. of the W. section, in 1861,4,592. Houses, 838. The two livings are vicarages in the diocese of Bath and Wells; and that of W. is united with the chapelry of St. Matthew. Value of L., £235; of W., £300. Patrons of both, Simeon's Trustees. The church of L. was built in 1832; is in the later English style; and has a tower. The church of W. is the oldest in the city; has been partially restored; and has an ivy-clad, tower. St. Luke's church, to serve for the outlying parts of the parish, was built in 1868, at a cost of £2,850, without tower and spire, to be afterwards erected; and is in the early decorated style. The Bath workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 616 inmates.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, which is also a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Lyncombe and Widcombe AP/CP       Bath RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Lyncombe

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