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MAMBLE, a parish, with a village, in the district of Cleobury-Mortimer, and county of Worcester; adjacent to the Tenbury and Bewdley railway, and to the boundary with Salop, 4 miles SE of Cleobury-Mortimer. Posttown, Cleobury-Mortimer, under Bewdley. Acres, 2,658. Real property, £3,097; of which £350 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,381; in 1861,307. Houses, 61. The property is divided between two. Sodington, the ancient seat of the Blounts, was burnt in the civil wars of Charles I.; was taken down in 1807; and was then found to stand over several curious Roman relics. There had previonsly been discovered, in the neighbourhood, an.entire Roman brick kiln, and parts of a considerable aqueduct, and a pavement. Coals are found; and the Tenbury canal comes near. The living is a vicarage,united with the p. curacy of Bayton, in the diocese of Hereford. Valne, £328.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old but good; has a wooden spire: aNd contains monuments of the Blounts.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mamble CP/AP Worcestershire AncC |
| Place: | Mamble |
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