In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bempstone like this:
BEMPSTONE, a hundred in Somerset. It contains Burnham and six other parishes. Acres, 25,698. Pop. in 1851, 8,123; in 1861, 8,383. Houses, 1,804.
Bempstone through time
Bempstone is now part of Sedgemoor district. Click here for graphs and data of how Sedgemoor has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bempstone itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bempstone, in Sedgemoor and Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20795
Date accessed: 04th November 2024
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