Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD

WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD, a parish, with a village, in Ross district, Hereford; 2¼ miles SE of Ross r. station. It has a post-office under Ross. Acres, 3,142. Real property, £7,999. Pop., 828. Houses, 162. The manor belongs to Lord Ashburton. Frogmore House and Rudhall are chief residences. Remains of an old castle are in Penyard Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £567.* Patron, the Bishop of H. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a parochial school, and charities £5.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Weston under Penyard Ch/AP/CP       Ross RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Weston under Penyard

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