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Redbrook, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Redbrook, a chapelry in Newland parish, Gloucestershire, on the river Wye at the boundary with Monmouthshire, 2½ miles SE of Monmouth. Part of the village of Redbrook lies in the parish of Dixon in Monmouth. The chapelry consists of the hamlets of Lower Redbrook and Upper Redbrook, and has a station on the Wye Valley branch of the G.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Redbrook, under Monmouth. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Newland, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church was erected in 1873, and is in. The Early English style.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.