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LIDBROOK, a village in English-Bicknor parish, Gloucester; on the river Wye, 4½ miles S of Ross. It has a post office under Ross, and a Baptist chapel; and a tramroad, used for the conveyance of coal and timber, goes from it, through Dean forest, to Newnham and Lydney on the Severn.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | English Bicknor CP/AP Gloucestershire AncC |
Place: | Lydbrook |
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