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VOBSTER, a chapelry in Mells parish, Somerset; 5¼ miles W by N of Frome r. station. It was constituted in 1851; and its Post town is Mells, under Frome. Pop., 182. Houses, 44. The living is a p. curacy, united with Leigh-upon-Mendip, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £60.* Patron, the Rector of Mells.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Mells CP/AP Somerset AncC |
Place: | Vobster |
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