Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Compton

Compton, par. and vil., N. Hants, on river Itchen, 2½ miles SW. of Winchester, 2110 ac., pop. 275; P.O.; contains Compton Down, where Cromwell encamped previous to his siege of Winchester.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Compton AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Compton

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