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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "COMPTON MARTIN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BATH and WELLS	Somerset	Compton-Martin, Hinton-Bluett, Norton-Malreward, Ubley, and Winford; the vicarages of Chew Magna, Compton-Dando, High Littleton, Stowey, Stanton	Imperial
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	CHICHESTER , a city, a sub-district, a district, a rape, and a diocese in Sussex. The city stands at the	Imperial
  CLUTTON	Somerset	Compton-Martin, Cameley, Hinton-Blewett, and part of Chewton-Mendip. Acres, 47, 026. Poor-rates in 1862, £12, 847. Pop. in 1841, 25, 190; in 1861, 23, 721. Houses	Imperial
  Compton-Martin	Somerset	Compton-Martin , par. E. Somerset, 7½ miles N. of Wells, 2314 ac., pop. 415; P.O.	Bartholomew
  COMPTON-MARTIN	Somerset	COMPTON-MARTIN , a parish in Clutton district, Somerset; under the Mendip hills, 6 ½ miles SW of Pensford, and 7½ N of Wells	Imperial
  DORCHESTER	Dorset	Compton-Abbas, Compton-Vallence, Kingston-Russell, Long Bredy, Little Bredy, Winterbourne-Abbas, Winterbourne-Steepleton, and Winterbourne-St. Martin, and the parochial	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	Compton-Gifford, Plympton-St. Mary, Plympton-St. Maurice, Plymstock, Shaugh, Devonport-St. Michael, Devonport-St. Aubyn, Devonport-St. James, Devonport-St. John, Devonport-St. Mary, Devonport-St. Paul, Devonport-St. Stephen, East Stonehouse, Stonehouse-St. Paul, Wembury, and Revelstoke. The deanery of Tamerton contains the rectories of Bere-Ferrers, Meavy, Tavy-St. Peter, and Tavy-St. Mary; the vicarages of Bickleigh, Buckland-Monachorum, Budock, Tamerton-Foliatt, Walkhampton, and Whitchurch; and the p. curacies of Sheepstor, Penwerries, Sampford-Spiney, and Martin	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Compton-Abdale. The deanery of Fairford comprises the rectories of Barnsley, Eastleach - Martin, Hatherop, Meysey - Hampton, and Quenington; the vicarages	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Martins-le-Grand. A mob, in 1326, dragged Walter de Stapledon, bishop of Exeter, from its altar, to undergo death at Cheapside-cross. Jane Shore did penance in it. Wycliffe was tried in it for his doctrines. Dean Colet's boy bishop ministered in it. A choir of singers, on great festivals, in the time of Mary, sang anthems after vespers far aloft in its spire. Bankes and his famous horse mounted to the top of it in 1600. Some secular use of its aisles, especially as a thoroughfare, was made so early as 1400; and this became so great	Imperial
  NORTHLEACH	Gloucestershire	Martin, Southrop, and the greater part of Bibury; and the sub-district of Chedworth, containing the parishes of Chedworth, Coln, St. Denis, Coln-Rogers, Compton	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	OXFORD , a city and a university in Oxfordshire, partly also in Berks, and a diocese comprehending nearlyall Oxfordshire and Berks	Imperial
  SANTRY, or SANTREFF	Dublin	Compton Domville, Bart., proprietor of the parish, a stately mansion of brick, containing many spacious apartments ornamented with numerous family portraits, a valuable collection of historical and scriptural paintings by the best masters, and many valuable specimens of the fine arts: the demesne, comprising more than 140 acres, is tastefully laid out in gardens and pleasure-grounds, richly embellished with timber, and commanding some beautiful scenery and some extensive mountain and sea views. There are numerous other seats and villas in the parish, of which the principal are Belcamp House, the residence of C. S. Hawthorne, Esq., a handsome mansion	Lewis:Ireland
  SOMERSET, or Somersetshire	Somerset	Athelney; and old churches, or parts of them, with artistic features, at Uphill, Cannington, Dunster, Stogursey, Taunton, Compton-Martin, Christon, and Portbury.	Imperial

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