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Writhlington

"WRITHLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Kilmersdon, county Somerset, 6 miles N.W. of Frome. It is situated on the Bath canal, and an affluent of the Avon, abounding with trout and eels. The surface is hilly, and the soil chiefly clay on a substratum of oolite. There are extensive collieries, quarries of white freestone, and beds of fuller's earth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells, value £170, in the patronage of the Prebendary of Writhlington in the cathedral of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene." From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003

Archives and Libraries

• Details of Somerset Record Office holdings relating to this parish.

Maps

• The Ordnance Survey 1:10560 County Series 2nd edition (c.1900) map of the area provided by Somerset Record Office.

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