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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kyre like this:
KYRE (GREAT), or Kyre-Wyard, a parish in Tenbury district, Worcester; adjacent to Herefordshire, 4 miles SE of Tenbury r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Kyre, under Tenbury. Acres, 1,520. Real property, 1,459. Pop., 154. Houses, 36. The property is divided between two. Kyre House belonged formerly to the Pytts and the Childes, and belongs now to T. Oxley, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £115. Patron, W. L. Childe, Esq. The church is good.
Kyre is now part of MALVERN HILLS District. Click here for graphs and data of how MALVERN HILLS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Kyre itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kyre, in Malvern Hills and Worcestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9930
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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