A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TWERTON, or Twiverton, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Bath district, Somerset. The village stands on the river Avon, and on the Great Western railway, 2 miles W of Bath; carries on woollen-cloth manufacture, carpet-making, and tanning; and has a post-office‡ under Bath, a r. station, two suspension bridges, a modern church with old tower and Norman doorway, a school church, four dissenting chapels, and a parochial school.—The parish comprises 971 acres. Real property, £8,659; of which £30 are in quarries. Pop., 3,012. Houses, 649. The property is much subdivided. The railway here traverses a tunnel 227 yards long. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £400.* Patron, Oriel College, Oxford. Bath jail is here.—The sub-district contains 7 parishes. Acres, 14,192. Pop., 6,953. Houses, 1,472.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Twerton AP/CP Twerton SubD Bath RegD/PLU Somerset AncC |
| Place names: | TWERTON | TWERTON OR TWIVERTON | TWIVERTON |
| Place: | Twerton |
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