Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARWICK

BARWICK, a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; on the verge of the county, 2 miles S of Yeovil r. station. It includes the hamlet of Stoford; and its Post Town is Yeovil. Acres, 784. Real property, £2,064. Pop., 458. Houses, 89. Barwick House is the seat of J. Newman, Esq. There are two flax mills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £100. Patron, J. Newman, Esq. The church is early English.


(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: Barwick CP/AP       Yeovil RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Barwick

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