Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for IMBER

IMBER, a parish in Warminster district, Wilts; in Salisbury plain, 4 ½ miles NE by N of Heytesbury r. station, and 6½ ENE of Warminster. Post town, Heytesbury, under Bath. Acres, 3, 033. Real property, £2, 616. Pop., 382. Houses, 85. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £120. * Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church contains two effigies of Knights Templars, and is good. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Imber CP/AP       Warminster RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Imber

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