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FOREBRIDGE, a chapelry in Castle-Church parish, Staffordshire; adjacent to the Northwestern and the Stafford and Shrewsbury railways, 1 mile SW of Stafford. Post town, Stafford. Rated property, £8, 000. Pop., 2, 531. Houses, 519. The property is much sub-divided. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Incumbent of Castle-Church. The church is good; and there is a national school.
(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: | Castle Church Ch/AP/CP Staffordshire AncC |
Place: | Forebridge |
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