Wednesday, July 08, 2009

A vision of Britain has a new url

A vision of Britain through time | Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.

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Place: Redmarley Dabitot Worcestershire

Historical description

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Redmarley Dabitot like this:

REDMARLEY-D'ABITOT, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Newent district; the village and the parish in Worcestershire,
but most of the sub-district in Gloucestershire.

The village stands 1 mile N of the river Leadon, at the boundary with Gloucestershire, and 5¾ S W by S of Ledbury r. station; and has a post-office, of the name of Redmarley, under Gloucester. The parish comprises 3, 778 acres. Real property, £6, 442. Pop.in 1851, 1, 192; in 1861, 1, 265. Houses, 268. The property is divided amo...

1 Comments:

Blogger Humphrey said...

Please do NOT use this new URL. It only appeared because of problems during the re-launch. The old URLs now work fine.

11:15 am  

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