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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wambrook like this:
WAMBROOK, a parish in the district of Chard and county of Dorset; 2¼ miles WSW of Chard r. station. It has a post-office under Chard. Acres, 1,857. Real property, returned with Chardstock. Pop., 286. Houses, 49. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £262.* Patron, the Rev. H. H. A. Smith.
Wambrook is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wambrook itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wambrook, in Somerset and Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13996
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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