Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARSTABLE

BARSTABLE, a hundred in Essex. It touches the Thames, 12 miles above and below Gravesend; extends from 7½ to 15 miles inland; and includes 33 parishes Acres, 77,400. Pop. in 1851, 15,216; in 1861, 15,280. Houses, 3,038.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Essex AncC
Place: Barstable

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