Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WAMBROOK

WAMBROOK, a parish in the district of Chard and county of Dorset; 2¼ miles WSW of Chard r. station. It has a post-office under Chard. Acres, 1,857. Real property, returned with Chardstock. Pop., 286. Houses, 49. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £262.* Patron, the Rev. H. H. A. Smith.


(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: Wambrook Ch/CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Wambrook

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