Sea Mills, Gloucestershire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Sea Mills. You may be able to find further references to Sea Mills in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Sea Mills railway station Bartholomew
SEA-MILLS a r station Imperial

Travel writing

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Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Sea Mills. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
SEA MILLS John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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