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FALFIELD, a tything and a chapelry in Thornbury parish, Gloucester. The tything is conjoint with moorton; and lies 2 miles NE by E of Thornbury, and 4 NW of Wickwar r. station. Real property, £2, 159. Pop., 884. Houses, 189. The chapelry is less extensive than the tything. Post town, Thornbury, under Bristol. Pop., 700. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £60. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was built in 1860.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a tything and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Falfield Parish Thornbury Parish Gloucestershire Ancient County |
| Place: | Falfield |
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