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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Emborough like this:
EMBORROW, or Emborough, a parish in Shepton Mallet district, Somerset; under the Mendip hills, 5 miles NE of Wells r. station. It includes the tything of Whitnell. Post town, Chewton-Mendip, under Bath. Acres, 2, 039. Real property, £1, 737. Pop., 178. Houses, 41. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chewton-Mendip, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is small.
Emborough is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Emborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Emborough in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12825
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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