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BROCKHAMPTON, a township or a parish, and a subdistrict, in Bromyard district, Hereford. The township lies 2 miles NE of Bromyard, and 9 NNW of Malvern Link r. station; is sometimes called Norton-with-Brockhampton; and has been regarded variously as a township-chapelry of Bromyard parish and as itself a separate parish. Post Town, Bromyard, under Worcester. Acres, 1,410. Pop., 623. Houses, 129. The place contains several good residences suburban to Bromyard. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bromyard, in the diocese of Hereford.-The subdistrict contains part of two parishes, eleven entire parishes, two of them electorally in Worcester, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 21,812. Pop., 3,716. Houses, 761.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township or a parish, and a subdistrict" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bromyard Poor Law Union/Registration District Herefordshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | BROCKHAMPTON | NORTON WITH BROCKHAMPTON |
| Place: | Brockhampton |
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