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IRCHINGFIELD, or ARCHENFIELD, a quondam liberty and a rural deanery in the S of Hereford. The liberty was known to the ancient Welsh as Urging, to the Saxons as Ircingafeld, and at Domesday as Arcenfelde; was ravaged in 905 by the Danes, and given afterwards, by the Crown, to the Earls of Shrewsbury; and had the custom of gavelkind, and some other peculiar customs. The rural deanery is noticed in the article Hereford.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a quondam liberty and a rural deanery" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Herefordshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | ARCENFELDE | ARCHENFIELD | IRCHINGFIELD | IRCHINGFIELD OR ARCHENFIELD | IRCINGAFELD | URGING |
| Place: | Archenfield |
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