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AXMINSTER, a '''town''', a '''subdistrict''', a '''hundred''', and a '''district''', in Devon; and a '''parish '''partly also in Dorset. The town stands on a rising ground, adjacent to the river Axe, above the influx of the Yarty, and contiguous to the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 25 miles E by N of Exeter. There are chapels for '''independents''', '''Wesleyans''' and '''Roman Catholics'''. The parish includes the tythings of Abbey, Shapwick, Smallridge, Trill, Uphay, West Water, Weycroft, and Wyke or Week, in Devon.<ref>John M. Wilson, [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=878850 ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]'', (1870) Date accessed 11 June 2013</ref> | AXMINSTER, a '''town''', a '''subdistrict''', a '''hundred''', and a '''district''', in Devon; and a '''parish '''partly also in Dorset. The town stands on a rising ground, adjacent to the river Axe, above the influx of the Yarty, and contiguous to the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 25 miles E by N of Exeter. There are chapels for '''independents''', '''Wesleyans''' and '''Roman Catholics'''. The parish includes the tythings of Abbey, Shapwick, Smallridge, Trill, Uphay, West Water, Weycroft, and Wyke or Week, in Devon.<ref>John M. Wilson, [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=878850 ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales]'', (1870) Date accessed 11 June 2013</ref> | ||
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