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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bishops Hull like this:
BISHOPS-HULL, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; adjacent to the Bristol and Exeter railway, 1½ mile W of Taunton. It has a post office under Taunton. Acres, 1,341. Real property, £10,567. Pop., 1,614. Houses, 321. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £222-Patron, the Rev. W. P. Williams. St. John's is a separate vicarage, formed in 1864. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £60.
Bishops Hull is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bishops Hull itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bishops Hull in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12969
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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