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ELSON, a chapelry in Alverstoke parish, Hants; on the Gosport Junction railway, near Portsmouth harbour, 1 mile NNW of Gosport. It was constituted in 1845; and its post town is Gosport. Pop., 1, 530. Houses, 287. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £140.* Patron, the Rector of Alverstoke. The church is small and good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
(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: | Alverstoke AP/CP Hampshire AncC |
Place: | Elson |
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