Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PEBWORTH

PEBWORTH, a village and a parish in the district of Evesham and county of Gloucester. The village stands near the boundary with Worcester, 1½ mile N E of Honey-bourne r. station, and 5 N by W of Chipping-Campden. The parish con tains also the hamlet of Broad-Marston; and its post town is Chipping-Campden, under Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Acres, 3,050. Real property, £5, 391. Pop., 736. Houses, 163. The property is much sub-divided. The manor belongs to T. Shekel, Esq. There are mineral springs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £98. Patron, T. Shekel, Esq. The church is good, and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £24 a year, and charities £48.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Pebworth AP/CP       Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Pebworth

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