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Weston upon Avon
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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"WESTON-UPON-AVON, a parish partly in the Alcester division of Barlichway hundred, county Warwick, but chiefly in the upper division of Kiftsgate hundred, county Gloucester, 4 miles S.W. of Stratford-on-Avon, and 6 from the Honeybourne station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway. The village is situated on the Avon, which is navigable to Tewkesbury. The parish comprises the tythings of Weston and Milcote. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Gloucester, value £90. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The local charities produce about £12 per annum, the endowment of Eden's school. Earl Amherst is lord of the manor."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- Original source material relating to Weston upon Avon, and other parishes in Diocese of Warwick may be found at the Warwickshire County Record Office; with the exeception of Bishops Transcripts, which (if they exist) should be found at Gloucestershire Archives.
- The transcription of the section for Weston upon Avon from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Weston upon Avon to another place.
- The parish of Weston on Avon was transferred from Gloucestershire to Warwickshire in 1931.
[Ref: Handlist of the contents of the Gloucestershire Archives, 1995, et al.]
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