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DRAYCOTT, a chapelry in Cheddar and Stoke-Rodney parishes, Somerset; under the Mendip hills, 4 miles SE of Axbridge, and 5¼ WNW of Wells r. station. Post town, Cheddar, under Weston-super-Mare. Pop., 618. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £86. Patron, alternately the Vicar of Cheddar and the Rector of Stoke-Rodney. The church was built in 1862, at a cost of £1, 500; consists of nave, chancel, and transept, with vestry and bell-turret; and is in the early decorated style.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Somerset Ancient County |
| Place: | Draycott |
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