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WELFORD - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"WELFORD, (or Welford on Avon), a parish partly in the Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, county Warwick, but chiefly in the upper division of Deerhurst hundred, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.W. of Stratford-on-Avon. It is situated on the river Avon, and contains the hamlets of Bickmarsh and Little Dorsington. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £450. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The Wesleyans have a chapel. The parochial charities produce about £8 per annum. Earl Amherst is lord of the manor."

"BICKMARSH, a hamlet in the parish of Welford and hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 5 miles to the S.E. of Alcester. It is united with Little Dorsington, and is included within the Poor-law Union of Stratford-on-Avon."

"LITTLE DORSINGTON, a hamlet in the parish of Welford, Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, in the county of Warwick, 4 miles W. of Stratford-on-Avon. It is joined to Bickmarsh.

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