Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for VOBSTER

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))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Mells CP/AP       Somerset AncC
Place: Vobster

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