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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Baltonsborough like this:
BALTONSBOROUGH, a parish in Wells district, Somerset; on the river Brue, 4 miles SW of Glastonbury r. station. It includes the hamlet of Southwood; and has a post office under Glastonbury. Acres, 2,472. Real property, £6,934. Pop., 763. Houses, 166. The liv ing is a p. curacy, annexed to Butleigh, in the dio. of Bath and Wells. The church is later English. There are Wesleyan and Moravian chapels, and two public schools.
Baltonsborough is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Baltonsborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Baltonsborough in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12363
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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