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Minety, or Mynty (St. Leonard)

MINETY, or Mynty (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union and hundred of Malmesbury, N. division of Wilts, 7 miles (S. by W.) from Cirencester; containing 736 inhabitants. The parish comprises by measurement 2717 acres, of which a small portion only is arable: the soil is generally a strong clay; the surface is level, and the lands are watered by a stream called Swill-Brook. Here is a station of the railway between Swindon and Gloucester; it is 8¼ miles from the former town. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7. 7. 6.; net income, £166; patron, the Archdeacon of Wilts. The church is in the southwestern part of the parish. A mineral spring was discovered some years since.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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