Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SAMPFORD-ARUNDEL

SAMPFORD-ARUNDEL, a parish, with a village, in Wellington district, Somerset; on the Bristol and Exeter railway, 2½ miles S W by W of Wellington. It has a post-office under Wellington, Somerset. Acres, 1, 144. Real property, £2, 527. Pop., 425. Houses, 88. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £170.* Patron, the Rev.B. Sweet. The church is good; and there is a parochial school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Sampford Arundel AP/CP       Wellington RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Sampford Arundel

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