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MALVERN LINK, a chapelry in Leigh parish, Worcester; on the Worcester and Malvern railway, 1 mile NE of Great Malvern. It was constituted in 1846; it forms an important suburb of Great Malvern, and is rapidly increasing; and it has a post office,‡ designated Malvern Link, Worcestershire, a railway station, a large and elegant hotel of 1862, and many handsome detached residences. Pop. in 1861,1,670. Houses, 319. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church was built in 1846; was greatly enlarged in 1860; is in the early English style; and has a tower of two stages, designed to be carried up a third stage, and to be surmounted by a spire. An Independent chapel was built in 1861, and contains about 400 sittings. There are national and British schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Leigh CP/AP Worcestershire AncC |
Place: | Malvern Link |
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