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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Batcombe like this:
BATCOMBE, a parish in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; near the East Somerset railway, 3 miles N of Bruton. It has a post office under Bath. Acres, 3,229. Real property, £4,006. Pop., 713. Houses, 172. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Upton Noble, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, not reported.* Patron, the Rev. J. Brown. The church was restored in 1844. There are two Wesleyan chapels.
Batcombe is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Batcombe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cromford, in Somerset and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12390
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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