A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PEMBRIDGE, a village and a parish in the district of Presteigne and county of Hereford. The village stands on the river Arrow, near the Leominster and Kington railway, 7 miles W of Leominster; was formerly a market town; is nominally a borough, governed by ahigh bailiff; and has a station on the railway, and a head post-office, ‡ designated Pembridge, Herefordshire, and fairs on 13 May and 22 Nov. The parish comprises 7,077 acres. Real property, £10, 797; of which £110 areon the railway . Pop. in 1851, 1, 319; in 1861, 1, 500. Houses, 306. The property is subdivided. The manorsbelonged anciently to the Mortimers; and belong now to the Rev. F. Evans and J. K. Smithies, Esq. A new mansionwas built in 1861. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £975.* Patron, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is of the 13th and 14thcenturies; and a wooden bell-tower stands near it. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, endowed national schools, alms-houses for 12 persons, and some smaller charities.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Pembridge CP/AP Herefordshire AncC |
| Place: | Pembridge |
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