Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BISHPORT, or Bishopsworth

BISHPORT, or Bishopsworth, a chapelry in Bedminster parish, Somerset; near Wans Dyke and the Bristol and Exeter railway, 3 miles SW of Bristol. It has a post office of Bishopsworth under Bristol. Pop., 1,606. Houses, 337. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1842. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.


(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: Bedminster AP/CP       Somerset AncC
Place names: BISHOPSWORTH     |     BISHPORT     |     BISHPORT OR BISHOPSWORTH
Place: Bishopsworth

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