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PIXLEY, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"PIXLEY, a parish in the hundred of Radlow, county Hereford, 4 miles N.W. of Ledbury, its post town. The parish is inconsiderable and wholly agricultural. The land is partly in hop grounds. The surface is generally level, and the soil a stiff clay. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £122, and the glebe comprises 7 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford, value £102. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The parochial charities amount to about £1 a year."

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

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