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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hendford like this:
HENDFORD, a chapelry in Yeovil parish, Somerset; on the river Yeo, adjacent to Dorset, in the vicinity of Yeovil town and r. station. It was constituted in 1848. Post town, Yeovil. Pop., 3, 997. Houses, 716. Hendford Manor House is the seat of Edwin Newman, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern; and there is an Independent chapel.
Hendford is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hendford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hendford in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24103
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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