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"DOWNTON, a parish in the hundred of WIGMORE, county of HEREFORD, 5 miles (W. by S.) from Ludlow, containing 111 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4.10., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Giles." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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| St Giles, Downton, Church of England |
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