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CINDERFORD, a chapelry in Forest of Dean, Gloucester; 3½ miles WNW of Newnham town and r. station. It has a post office ‡ under Newnham. Pop., 3, 180. Here are extensive iron-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300.* Patron, the Crown. The church is modern, cruciform, and in the early English style. There are Baptist and Methodist chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Gloucestershire AncC |
Place: | Cinderford |
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