Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KYRE (GREAT), or Kyre-Wyard

KYRE (GREAT), or Kyre-Wyard, a parish in Tenbury district, Worcester; adjacent to Herefordshire, 4 miles SE of Tenbury r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Kyre, under Tenbury. Acres, 1,520. Real property, 1,459. Pop., 154. Houses, 36. The property is divided between two. Kyre House belonged formerly to the Pytts and the Childes, and belongs now to T. Oxley, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £115. Patron, W. L. Childe, Esq. The church is good.


(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: Kyre Magna Ch/CP/AP       Tenbury RegD/PLU       Worcestershire AncC
Place names: GREAT KYRE     |     KYRE     |     KYRE GREAT     |     KYRE GREAT OR KYRE WYARD     |     KYRE WYARD
Place: Kyre Magna

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