Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ABBOTS-KERSWELL, or Abbots-Carswell

ABBOTS-KERSWELL, or Abbots-Carswell, a parish in Newton-Abbot district, Devon; on the South Devon railway, 2 miles south of Newton-Abbot. Post town, Newton-Abbot. Acres, 1,461. Real property, £3,043. Pop. 437. Houses, 106. The property is much divided. The minerals comprise limestone, coal, potter's clay, and alum. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £293.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The ancient church was a cell of Montacute Abbey. The present church is a neat small edifice of nave, chancel, and aisles, with a square tower. There are two small dissenting chapels, Baptist and Wesleyan.


(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: Abbotskerswell CP/AP       Newton Abbot RegD/PLU       Devon AncC
Place names: ABBOTS CARSWELL     |     ABBOTS KERSWELL     |     ABBOTS KERSWELL OR ABBOTS CARSWELL
Place: Abbotskerswell

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