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"BREDON, a parish partly in the upper, partly in the middle division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, in the county of Worcester, 2 miles to the N. of Ashchurch. Tewkesbury is its post town. It is a station on the Bristol and Birmingham section of the Midland railway. The parish is situated on the border of Gloucestershire, on the E. bank of the river Avon, and contains the chapelries of Norton-by-Bredon, Cutsdean (which is about 12 miles distant from Bredon, in the upper division of the hundred), and the hamlets of Hardwick, Mitton, Kinsham, and Westmancote."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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