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CALLOW, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"CALLOW, a parish in the hundred of Webtree, in the county of Hereford, 4 miles to the S. of Hereford. It is near the Newport section of the West Midland railway, being 2½ miles E. of the Tram Inn station. The living is a perpetual curacy united to the vicarage of Dewsall, value £86, in the diocese of Hereford. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, has a square parapeted tower, and was rebuilt in 1830. On a hill are remains of two Roman camps. The parish contains 621 acres, principally belonging to the governors of Guy's Hospital, who are lords of the manor."

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

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