Description
Wanstrow, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, with a station (passengers only) on the G.W.R., 115 miles from London, and 5 1/2 SW of Frome. It has a post and telegraph office under Shepton Mallet; money order office, Batcombe. Acreage, 2099; population, 321. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £270 with residence. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1877. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
