Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Gorsley like this:

Gorsley, hamlet, Newent par., W. Gloucestershire, and eccl. dist. (Gorsley and Clifford's Mesne), partly in Linton par., Herefordshire -- dist., pop. 1209; the hamlet is 2 miles SW. of Newent.

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Travel writing

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