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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chelvey like this:
CHELVEY, a parish in Bedminster district, Somerset; on the Bristol and Exeter railway, near Nailsea r. station, 8½ miles WSW of Bristol. Post town, Nailsea, Somerset. Acres, 1, 077. Rated property, £1, 249. Pop., 54. Houses, 8. The property is all in one estate. The house-house is now used as a farm-house; and bears the arms of the Tyntes, who became owners of the manor about 1600. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £142. Patron, J. Cooke, Esq. The church is later English.
Chelvey is now part of NORTH SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chelvey itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chelvey, in North Somerset and Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20226
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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