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''[[England]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon Parishes]]''  
''[[England]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Devon Parishes]]''  


'''Part of this parish is in Dorset. See also [[Axminster, Dorset|Axminster, Dorset]].'''
'''Part of this parish is in Dorset. See also [[Axminster, Dorset|Axminster, Dorset]].'''  


== Parish History  ==
== Parish History  ==
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.


Axminster is an ancient '''parish''', <u>partly in&nbsp; Devon and partly in Dorset</u>. Axminster, par. and market town, in the above hundred.&nbsp;Axminster is an ancient parish, partly in Devon and partly in Dorset, and is on river Axe, 25 miles NE. of Exeter and 144 miles SW. of London by rail, 7058 ac., Pop. 2872.<ref>Wilson, John M., ''[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>  
<ref>Wilson, John M., ''[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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