In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cleeve like this:
CLEEVE, a chapelry in Yatton parish, Somerset; on the Bristol and Exeter railway, near Yatton station, 7½ miles N of Axbridge. It has a post office under Yatton, Somerset. It was constituted in 1843. Pop., 406. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £75. Patron, the Vicar of Yatton. The church is very good.
Cleeve through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cleeve in North Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22811
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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