Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOKE-BLISS

STOKE-BLISS, a parish in Tenbury district; comprising 1,148 acres in Herefordshire, and Little Kyre hamlet of 930 acres in Worcestershire; and lying 5½ miles SE of Tenbury r. station. Post town, Tenbury. Rated property, £2,179. Pop., 298. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £374.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is tolerable. Charities, £21.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stoke Bliss AP/CP       Tenbury RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC       Worcestershire AncC
Place: Stoke Bliss

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