Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COLDEN-COMMON

COLDEN-COMMON, a chapelry in Owslebury and Twyford parishes, Hants; near the Southwestern railway, 4 miles S by E of Winchester. It was constituted in 1844. Post town, Owslebury, under Winchester. Pop., 652. Houses, 133. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £130.* Patron, alternately the Incumbent of Owslebury and the Vicar of Twyford.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Colden Common Ch/CP       Owslebury AP/CP       Twyford AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Colden Common

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