Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DEVERILL-KINGSTON

DEVERILL-KINGSTON, a parish in Mere district, Wilts; on the Deverill rivulet, 4 miles NE by N of Mere, and 6 SW of Heytesbury r. station. It has a post office under Warminster. Acres, 2, 060. Real property, with Deverill-Monckton, £3, 875. Pop., 376. Houses, 90. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £308. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church has an old font; and is very good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Mere RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Kingston Deverill

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