Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROBURY

BROBURY, a parish in Weobly district, Hereford; on the river Wye, adjacent to the Hereford and Brecon railway, near Kinnersley station, 8½ miles E by N of Hay. Post Town, Bredwardine, under Hereford. Acres, 508. Real property, £819. Pop., 76. Houses, 17. The property is divided among a few. Brobury scar is a bold grand object, amid the fine scenery of the Wye. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Bredwardine, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is small and plain.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Brobury AP/CP       Weobley RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Brobury

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