A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BICKNOR (Welsh), a parish in the district of Monmouth and county of Hereford: within a loop of the river Wye, opposite English Bicknor, 4¾ miles S by W of Ross r. station. Post Town, Goodrich, under Ross. Acres, 8,502. Real property, £1,572. Pop., 80. Houses, 18. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £169.* Patron, Rev. F. Aldrich-Blake. The church was rebuilt in 1859. A recumbent stone figure in the previous church is said to have been monumental of the Countess of Salisbury, who nursed Henry V. at Courtfield, a mansion about half a mile off.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Welsh Bicknor AP/CP Herefordshire AncC Monmouthshire AncC |
| Place names: | BICKNOR | BICKNOR WELSH | WELSH BICKNOR |
| Place: | Welsh Bicknor |
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