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FISHPONDS, a chapelry in Stapleton parish, Gloucester; near the West Midland railway, 3¼ miles NE of Bristol. It has a station on the railway, and a post office ‡ under Bristol. The acreage and pop. are returned with the parish. The rated property amounts to £10, 955, and is not much divided; but there are many good villas. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Stapleton. The church is good.
(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: | Stapleton CP/AP Gloucestershire AncC |
Place: | Fishponds |
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