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THORNBURY, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"THORNBURY, a parish in the hundred of Broxash, county Hereford, 4 miles N.W. of Bromyard, its post town, and 8 E. of Leominster. The village is situated on the river Frome. The parish includes the hamlets of Netherwood, Westwood, and Fencott, and Wall Hill treble-ditched camp, which is almost perfect, and is supposed to be a work of the Britons under Caractacus. The land is partly in hop grounds. The soil is clay and loam, with a subsoil of red marl. The manor anciently belonged to the Mortimers, and at Netherwood in this parish Roger Mortimer, the last Earl of March, was born in 1330, also Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who was beheaded in 1601. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Hereford, value £185. The church is old. The parochial charities produce about £4 per annum. There is a Sunday-school."

"FENCOTT, a township in the parish of Thornbury, county Hereford, 3 miles N. W. of Bromyard. It is united with Westwood."

"NETHERWOOD, a hamlet in the parish of Thornbury, county Hereford, 4 miles N.W. of Bromyard."

"WESTWOOD, a township in the parish of Thornbury, hundred of Wolphy, county Hereford, 5 miles N.W. of Bromyard."

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

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