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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Winsham like this:
WINSHAM, a parish, with a village, in Chard district, Somerset; 2½ miles ENE of Chard-Road r. station. It has a post-office under Chard, and a fair on Whit-Wednesday. Acres, 2,953. Real property, £5,211. Pop., 1,033. Houses, 204. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £287.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is early English and good. There are an Independent chapel and a slightly endowed national school.
Winsham is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Winsham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Winsham in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13414
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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