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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Downhead like this:
DOWNHEAD, a parish in Shepton-Mallet district, Somerset; 2¾ miles NE of Cranmore r. station, and 5 ENE of Shepton-Mallet. Post town, Leigh-on-Mendip, under Frome. Acres, 1, 525. Real property, £1, 416. Pop., 249. Houses, 48. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Doulting, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is later English.
Downhead is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Downhead itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Downhead in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12770
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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