Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROAD-HILL

ROAD-HILL, a chapelry in North Bradley parish, Wilts; adjacent to Road in Somerset, and 3 miles N Wby W of Westbury r. station. It was constituted in 1852; and its post town is Road, under Bath. Pop, 408. Houses, 97. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £159.* Patron, the Vicar of North Bradley. The church is good; and there is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: North Bradley AP/CP       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Rode Hill

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