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Place name County Entry Source DROITWICH Worcestershire Elmley-Lovett, Doverdale, and Hampton-Lovett, and the extra-parochial tract of Westwood-Park; and the sub-district of Claines Imperial Elmley Kent Elmley , par. and vil., E. Kent, in Isle of Sheppey, on the Swale, 1973 ac. (17 water) and 479 tidal Bartholomew Elmley Castle Worcestershire Elmley Castle , par. and vil., E. Worcestershire, 4½ miles SW. of Evesham, 2057 ac., pop. 372; P.O., called Elmley Bartholomew ELMLEY-CASTLE Worcestershire ELMLEY-CASTLE , a village and a parish in Pershore district, Worcester. The village stands near the boundary with Gloucester, under Imperial ELMLEY (Isle of) Kent ELMLEY (Isle of) , a parish in Sheppey district, Kent; on the Swale, 1¾ mile E of the Sheerness railway Imperial Elmley Lovett Worcestershire Elmley Lovett , par., E. Worcestershire, 4½ miles NW. of Droitwich, 2381 ac., pop. 345. Bartholomew ELMLEY-LOVETT Worcestershire ELMLEY-LOVETT , a parish in Droitwich district, Worcester; on the Oxford and Wolverhampton railway, 1¼ mile SSE of Hartlebury Imperial EMLEY, or Elmley Yorkshire Elmley, a village and a township in Wakefield district, and a parish partly also in Huddersfield district, W. R. Yorkshire Imperial HUDDERSFIELD Yorkshire Elmley, Silkstone, and High Hoyland parishes, and containing the townships of Thurstonland, Shepley, Shelley, Kirkburton, Cumberworth, and Half-Cumberworth; the sub-district Imperial MURSTON Kent Elmley. The livingt is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £600.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge Imperial NETHERTON Worcestershire NETHERTON , a hamlet in Cropthorne parish, Worcester; near Elmley Castle, 2 miles S of Cropthorne village. Pop., 91. Houses, 19. Imperial PERSHORE Worcestershire Elmley-Castle, Cropthorne, Strensham, Birlingham, Great Comberton, and Little Comberton; and the sub-district of Upton-Snodsbury, containing the parishes Imperial Sheppey, Isle of Kent Elmley, are themselves islands) and the town of Sheerness. The surface gradually rises from the marshes of the S. towards Bartholomew
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