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Kimbolton, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"KIMBOLTON, a parish in the hundred of Wolphy, county Hereford, 2½ miles N.E. of Leominster, its railway station and post town, and 15 from Hereford. The village, which is considerable, stands on an eminence near the turnpike road leading from Leominster to Tenbury. The land is partly in hops. Here are the remains of a Roman camp. The soil is clayey. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £346. The living is a perpetual curacy united with the perpetual curacy of Middleton-on-the-Hill, in the diocese of Hereford, value £132, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. James, has a tower containing four bells. There is a place of worship for the Primitive Methodists."

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