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POOL-QUAY, a village and a chapelry in Guilsfield parish, Montgomery. The village stands on the river Severn and on the Cambrian railway, 4 miles N N E of Welshpool; has a station on the railway, and a ferryacross the Severn; and carries on a trade in the export ofbarytes. The chapelry was constituted in 1862; and its post town is Guilsfield, under Welshpool. Pop., 420. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Asaph. Value, £250. Patron, the Earl of Powis.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Guilsfield Without Parish Montgomeryshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Pool Quay |
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