Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WIELD

WIELD, a parish in Alton district, Hants; 6½ miles W of Alton r. station. Post town, Alresford. Acres, 2,087. Real property, £1,857. Pop., 304. Houses, 62. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £64. Patron, the Earl of Portsmouth. The church is good; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wield Parish       Alton Poor Law Union/Registration District       Hampshire Ancient County
Place: Wield

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