Description
Winford, a parish, with Winford village and two hamlets, in Somerset, 4 miles from Nailsea station on the G.W.R.; and 6 SW of Bristol. It has a post office under Flaxbourton, money order and telegraph office. Chew Magna. Acreage, 3340; population of the civil parish, 935; of the ecclesiastical, 845. Winford Manor is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £350 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1796, and was reseated in 1868. There are Congregational and Baptist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
