A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BREAM, or Breem, a tything in Newland parish, and a chapelry in Newland and West Dean parishes, Gloucester. The tything lies in Dean forest, 3 miles NW of Lydney r. station, and 3¾ SSE of Coleford. Pop., 824. Houses, 154. The chapelry was constituted in 1854; and its Post Town is Lydney. Pop., 2,083. Houses, 404. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £250.* Patron, the Bishop. The church was partly rebuilt in 1861. There are two Methodist chapels. National schools were built in 1862.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a tything" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Bream Tg Newland CP/AP/Tg West Dean CP/Tn/ExP Gloucestershire AncC |
| Place names: | BREAM | BREAM OR BREEM | BREEM |
| Place: | Bream |
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