Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORTON-BY-BREDON, or Bredons-Norton

NORTON-BY-BREDON, or Bredons-Norton, a hamlet-chapelry in Bredon parish, Worcester; under Bredon hill, near the boundary with Gloucester, 1 mile S E of Bredon r. station, and 3½ N E by E of Tewkesbury. Post-town, Bredon, under Tewkesbury. Acres, 1, 100. Pop., 243. Houses, 55. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Bredon, in the diocese of Worcester.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bredon AP/CP       Worcestershire AncC
Place names: BREDONS NORTON     |     NORTON BY BREDON     |     NORTON BY BREDON OR BREDONS NORTON
Place: Bredons Norton

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