Zeals, Wiltshire Family History Guide

Status:

Alternative names: Zeals Green

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers:
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Nonconformists include:

Parishes adjacent to Zeals

• Silton Dorset
• Stourton Somerset
• Penselwood Somerset
• Bourton Dorset
• Gillingham Dorset
• Stourton Wiltshire
• Mere

Historical Descriptions

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Circa 1870

Zeals or Zeals-Green, a chapelry, with a village, in Mere parish, Wilts; 1½ mile WSW of Mere, and 4 NNW of Gillingham r. station. Post-town, Mere, under Bath. Real property, with Stourton, £5,654. Pop., 559. Houses, 134. Zeals House is the ancient seat of the Grove family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £290. Patron, the Vicar of Mere.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

• County: Wiltshire
• Civil Registration District: Mere
• Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Salisbury
• Diocese: Salisbury
• Rural Deanery: Wylye
• Poor Law Union: Mere
• Hundred: Mere
• Province: Canterbury