Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTPORT-ST. MARY

WESTPORT-ST. MARY, a parish in Malmsbury district, Wilts; contiguous to Malmsbury town, within Malmsbury borough, and 6 miles SW by W of Minety r. station. Post town, Malmsbury. Acres, 2,036. Real property, with Bremilham and Foxley, £6,335. Pop., 1,615. Houses, 339. The living is a vicarage, with Brockenborough and Charlton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £310.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was enlarged in 1841.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Westport St Mary AP/CP       Malmesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Westport St Mary

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