Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STAVORDALE

STAVORDALE, a place adjacent to Bruton, in Somerset. It gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Ilchester; and it had an Augustinian canonry, founded in the time of Henry III., rebuilt in 1443, and now partly destroyed and partly incorporated with a farmhouse.


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

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Somerset AncC
Place: Stavordale

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