Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REDBROOK

REDBROOK, a chapelry in Newland parish, Gloucester; on the river Wye at the boundary with Monmouthshire, 2¾ miles S E of Monmouth r. station. It consists of the hamlets of Lower Redbrook and Upper Redbrook; and has a post-office, of the name of Redbrook, under Monmouth. Extensive tin-plate works are here; but, a few years ago, were brought to a stand-still. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Newland, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Newland CP/AP/Tg       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Redbrook

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