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SOMERFORD (Great or Broad), a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in Malmsbury district, Wilts: on the river Avon, 7 miles NNE of Chippenham r. station. It has a post-office under Chippenham. Acres, 1,770. Rated property, £2,520. Pop., 532. Houses, 114. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £447.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1865.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village and a hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Great Somerford Parish Malmesbury Poor Law Union/Registration District Wiltshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | BROAD SOMERFORD | GREAT SOMERFORD | SOMERFORD | SOMERFORD BROAD | SOMERFORD GREAT | SOMERFORD GREAT OR BROAD |
| Place: | Great Somerford |
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