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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bratton Seymour like this:
BRATTON-SEYMOUR, or Bratton-St.-Maur, a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; 2½ miles NW of wincanton r. station, and 3½ SE of Castle-Cary. Post Town, Wincanton, under Bath. Acres, 1,093. Pop., 80. Houses, 21. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £161. Patrons, Sir M. Lopes and J. Hodges, Esq., alternately. The church stands on a green eminence overhanging a dell.
Bratton Seymour is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bratton Seymour itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bratton Seymour in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12467
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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