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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shepton Montague like this:
SHEPTON-MONTAGUE, a parish, with three hamlets, in Wincanton district, Somerset; on the Somerset and Dorset railway, 2¾ miles NW of Wincanton. Post town, Evercreech, under Bath. Acres, 2,424. Real property, £2,920. Pop., 433. Houses, 92. The manor belongs to W. Phelips, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £62. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. The church is later English, and was restored in 1855. There is a national school.
Shepton Montague is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shepton Montague itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shepton Montague in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13219
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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