Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GODNEY

GODNEY, a chapelry in Meare parish, Somerset; on the river Brue, and on the Mid Somerset railway, 4½ miles WN W of Glastonbury. Post town, Glastonbury. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £55. Patrons, the Heirs of P. Davies, Esq. The church was built in 1838.


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

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place: Godney

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