Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LIMEBROOK

LIMEBROOK, a township in Wigmore parish, Hereford; near the river Lug, 4¼ miles ENE of Presteign. Pop., 178. An Augustinian nunnery was founded here, in the time of Richard I., by the Mortimers; and was given, at the dissolution, to John West and Robert Gratwick.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wigmore AP/CP       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Limebrook

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