Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HEIGHTINGTON

HEIGHTINGTON, a chapelry in Rock parish, Worcester; on a small affluent of the Severn, 3 miles W of Stourport r. station. Post town, Rock, under Bewdley. Statistics, with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Rock, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Worcestershire AncC
Place: Heightington

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