In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stanton Prior like this:
STANTON-PRIOR, a parish in Keynsham district, Somerset; at Stantonbury Hill, 3 miles S of Saltford r. station, and 5 WSW of Bath. Post town, Bristol. Acres, 841. Real property, £2,629. Pop., 136. Houses, 32. The manor belonged anciently to Bath priory. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £182.* Patron, W. G. Langton, Esq. The church is old but good.
Stanton Prior through time
Stanton Prior is now part of Bath and North East Somerset district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bath and North East Somerset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stanton Prior itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stanton Prior in Bath and North East Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13232
Date accessed: 05th November 2024
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