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HODGESTON, a parish in the district and county of Pembroke; near Freshwater bay, 1 mile SE of Lamphey r. station, and 3 ESE of Pembroke. Post town, Lamphey, under Pembroke. Acres, 709. Real property, £741. Pop. in 1851, 78; in 1861, 43. Houses, 9. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £105. Patron, R. E. Arden, Esq. The church has a very beautiful decorated English chancel, and a very slender steeple; contains some richly canopied sedilia, and a double piscina; and was recently in very bad condition. Archbishop Young was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Hodgeston CP/AP Pembrokeshire AncC |
Place: | Hodgeston |
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