Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHRISTON

CHRISTON, a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset; 2½ miles SE of Weston-super-Mare Junction r. station, and 4 NW of Axbridge. Post town, Banwell, under Weston-super-Mare. Acres, 571. Rated property, £662. Pop., 81. Houses, 19. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £99.* Patron,R. Wainwright, Esq. The church is early English.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Christon AP/CP       Axbridge RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place: Christon

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