Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COMBE-MONCKTON

COMBE-MONCKTON, a parish in Bath district, Somerset; on the Radford canal, near the Fosse way and the Great Western railway, 2½ miles SSE of Bath. Post town, Combe-Down, under Bath. Acres, 720. Real property, £6, 181; of which £1, 648 are in quarries. Pop., 1, 271. Houses, 255. Bath stone is very extensively quarried. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Bath and Wells. Value, £60.* Patron, the Vicar of South Stoke. The church is very good. The vicarage of . Combe-Down is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school.


(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: Bath RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Monkton Combe

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