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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described North Cadbury like this:
CADBURY (North), a village and a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset. The village stands on an eminence, 2 miles NE of Sparkford r. station, and 5 WSW of Wincanton; and has a post office under Bath. The parish includes also the hamlets of Galhampton and Woolston. Acres, 2,810. Real property, £7,220. ...
Pop., 997. Houses, 236. The manor belonged to the Newmarshes, the Botreauxes, and the Hungerfords; and passed to the Bennetts. The manor house was built in 1581, by the third Earl of Huntingdon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £700.* Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church was built, in the time of Henry VI., by the Botreauxes; and contains several ancient monuments. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school. Ralph Cudworth was rector.
North Cadbury is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about North Cadbury itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of North Cadbury in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12507
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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