Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CINDERFORD

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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