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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Zeals like this:
ZEALS, or Zeals-Green, a chapelry, with a village, in Mere parish, Wilts; 1½ mile WSW of Mere, and 4 NNW of Gillingham r. station. Post town, Mere, under Bath. Real property, with Stourton, £5,654. Pop., 559. Houses, 134. Zeals house is the ancient seat of the Grove family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £290.* Patron, the Vicar of Mere.
Zeals is now part of WILTSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WILTSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Zeals itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Zeals in Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12189
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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