Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGSBURY (EAST AND WEST)

KINGSBURY (EAST AND WEST), a hundred in the SW of Somerset; comprising six detached portions; and containing Chard parish, and ten other parishes. Acres, 39, 944. Pop. in 1851, 20, 232; in 1861, 19, 435. Houses, 4, 030.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Somerset Ancient County
Place: Kingsbury

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