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MOORLINCH, a village, a township, and a parish in Bridgewater district, Somerset. The village stands 3¾ miles ESE of Shapwick r. station, and 6¼ E of Bridgewater; and has a fair on 20 Aug. The township comprises 1,122 acres. Real property, £2,454. Pop. in 1851,378; in 1861,334. Houses, 81. The parish contains also the chapelries of Catcott, Edington, Sutton-Mallett, Stawell, and Chilton-upon-Polden; and its Post town is Ashcott, under Bath. Acres, 9,252. Real property, £19,368. Pop. in 1851,2,439; in 1861,2,329. Houses, 534. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to B.Greenhill, Esq. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Stawell and Sutton-Mallett, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £500.* Patron, the Rev. R. J. Luscombe. The church is partly early English; and consist of nave and chancel, with a tower. The p. curacies of Catcott, Burtle, and Edington-with-Chilton-upon-Polden, are separate benefices. There are independent chapels in Moorlinch and Chilton-upon-Polden, a Wesleyan chapel in Catcott, a Primitive Methodist chapel in Bur.le, and national schools in Moorlinch and Catcott. The charities amount to £152.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Moorlinch CP/AP Somerset AncC |
| Place: | Moorlinch |
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