Description
Woolavington, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 2 miles from Cossington station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 4 1/2 NW of Bridgwater. It has a post office under Bridgwater; money order office, Dunball; telegraph office, Cossington railway station. Acreage, 1708; population of the civil parish, 293; of the ecclesiastical, 314. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £162 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is good, and was thoroughly restored in 1882. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
