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BISHOP'S WOOD, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BISHOP'S WOOD, a chapelry in the parish of Walford, and hundred of Greytree, in the county of Hereford, 3 miles to the S. of Ross, its post town. It is seated on the banks of the river Wye. The Bishop's Wood ironworks are in the neighbourhood. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £36, in the patronage of J. Partridge, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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