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COMBE-MONCKTON, a parish in Bath district, Somerset; on the Radford canal, near the Fosse way and the Great Western railway, 2½ miles SSE of Bath. Post town, Combe-Down, under Bath. Acres, 720. Real property, £6, 181; of which £1, 648 are in quarries. Pop., 1, 271. Houses, 255. Bath stone is very extensively quarried. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Bath and Wells. Value, £60.* Patron, the Vicar of South Stoke. The church is very good. The vicarage of . Combe-Down is a separate benefice. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bath Poor Law Union/Registration District Somerset Ancient County |
| Place: | Monkton Combe |
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