A Brief Description of Atch-Lench, Worcester, England 

Atch Lench, a hamlet, in the parish of Church Lench, union of Evesham, Lower division of the hundred Blackenhurst, Pershore and E. divisions of the county Worcester, 5 'l2 miles (N.) from Evesham; containing 82 inhabitants. It is situated on the borders of Warwickshire, and comprises 656 acres. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848 Vol. 3, Page 66) 
A Brief Description of Church-Lench, Worcester, England Church-Lench, a parish, in the union of Evesham, partly in the Lower division of the hundred of Blackenhurst, and partly in the Upper division of that Halfshire, Pershore and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 5 ~ miles (N. by W.) from Evesham; containing, with the hamlets of Atch-Lench, and Sheriffs-Lench, 393 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the borders of Warwickshire, and comprises 2530 acres, of which 757 are in the township of Church-lench. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848 Vol. 3, Page 66) 
A Brief Description of Dodderhill, Worcester, England 
Dodderhill (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union and parliamentary borough of Droitwich, Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, East division of the county of Worchester, \12 mile (N.) from the town ofDroitwich; containing with the township of Elm bridge, 2130 inhabitants. It is intersected by the river Salwarp and the road from Droitwich to Bromsgrove, and comprises 3,437 acres of a rich and highly productive soil, and about 100 acres of common or waste; the produce is principally wheat and beans: the surface of the land is rather hilly. Two miles from Droitwich, on the Bromsgrove road, is the pleasant village of Wichbold. The Birmingham canal and the Birmingham and Gloucester railway pass through the eastern part of the parish. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848 Vol. 2, Page 63) 
The church is a curious edifice, originally built in the year 1175; it was partly destroyed in the parliamentary war, but was rebuilt and now consists of the north transept of a Norman church, with a chancel of later date, and a south transept, upon which the tower stands; the nave has been entirely destroyed. From the hill on the summit of which the church is seated, the parish derives its name; it commands a pleasing view of the town and neighborhood of Droitwich. 
Dodderhill is 143 miles from London (coach road 127), one mile from Droitwich, 10 miles from Kidderminster. In 1843 Dodderhill contained 380 houses; population in 1841 was 2,050 with a probable population in 1849 of2,357. (From The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical by H.G. Collins, 1852 Vol. 2, Page 44) 
A Brief Description of Droitwich, Worcester, England 
Droitwich, an ancient borough and market-town, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the Upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, Droitwich and E. divisions of county of Worcester, 6 ~ miles (N. E. by N.) from Worcester, and 118 (N. W.) from London; containing 2832 inhabitants. This place was anciently denominated Wich, or Wiehe, from the wiches, or salt springs, with which the neighborhood abounds; and the prefix Droit, right or legal, is supposed to refer to some exclusive privilege for the manufacture of salt, obtained by the inhabitants. It appears to have been the town of the ancient Britons, called by Richard of Cirencester Salina, from its saline springs, situated on a British road, styled the Saltway. There is no evidence of it ever being occupied by the Romans; but under the Saxon government it rose to importance, and seems to have given name to their province ofWiccia, of which Worcestershire constituted the principal part. 
The town is situated on the river Salwarp, upon which there are several com-mills. The manufacture of salt is probably coeval with the town itself, though it was not until the year 1725 that the strong brine, for which it is now famous, was discovered; its purity is considered superior to that of any salt obtained elsewhere, and the quantity produced amounts to about 1,800,000 bushels a year. 
The town was originally incorporated by a charter from John, conferring on the inhabitants various privileges, which were confirmed and increased by succeeding monarchs; The ancient borough comprises the greater part of the united parishes of S1. Andrew and St. Mary-de- Witton, those of S1. Peter-de- Witton, and S1. Nicholas, and a small portion of that of S1. Augustine-de- Wich, or Dodderhill. The parishes of S1. Andrew and S1. Mary were later united by letters from Edward VI. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848) 
A Brief Description of Hanbury, Worcester, England 
Hanbury (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Droitwich, Middle division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, Droitwich and E. divisions of the county of Worcester, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Droitwich; containing 1069 inhabitants. The parish comprises 7002 acres; the surface is diversified with hills, and many of the high grounds command pleasing views; the soil is chiefly stiff clay or marl, producing excellent wheat and beans. The Binningham and Worcester canal, the Birmingham and Loucester railway, and the roads from Bromsgrove and Droitwich to Alcester, pass through the parish. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848) 
A Brief Description of Stoke Prior, Worcester, England 
Stoke Prior, is a parish, in the hundred of Oswaldstow - the village is situated 2 miles south of Bromsgrove, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and on the banks of the Birmingham and Worcester Canal. Within the parish are extensive salt, soap and vitriol works, a rock salt mine, and a large establishment for making railway carriages - the entire employing a considerable number of hands. The places of worship are the parish church of Saint Michael an old structure in the Roman style of architecture and a chapel of ease, at the upper end of the village. The living of Stoke Prior is a vicarage, in the same patronage as that of Bromsgrove. A school, constructed upon the national plan, and one for infants, have been lately opened in the parish - the population of which, in 1831, was 100, and in 1841, 1,576. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848) 

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A Brief Description of Abersychan, Monmouthsire, England 
Abersychan, an urban district in the northern parliamentary division of Monmouth shire, England, N. by W. of Newport, on the Great Western, London and North-Western, and Rhynmey railways. Pop. (1901) 17,768. It lies in the narrow upper valley of the Afon Lwyd on the eastern edge of the great coal and iron mining district of Glamorganshire and Momnouthshire, and its large industrial population is occupied in the mines and ironworks. The neighbourhood is wild and mountainous. 
Abersychan was constituted a civil parish under the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73); it now contains Garndiffaith, Pontnewynydd, Talywain and the hamlets of Cefnycrib, Cwm Avon, Cwmffrwdoer, Cwnmantddu, Freehold land, Golynos, Pentrepiod, Snatchwood, Tranch and Varteg. 
The village of Abersychan is at the confluence of the Sychan with the Tarfaen or Afon Lwyd. 
In 1844 it was formed into an ecclesiastical parish from the civil parish ofTrevethin; it is 163 miles from London; 2 north-west from Pontypool, and has two railway stations, Abersychan on the Eastern Valleys branch of the Great Western railway and Talywain on the London and North Western branch of their line from Brynmawr to Pontypool. 
It is in the Northern division of the county, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Pontypool, rural deanery of Blaenau Gwent, archdeaconry of Monmouth and diocese of 
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The civil parish contains portions of three ecclesiastical parishes viz. Abersychan, St Lukes and Trevethin. The church of St. Thomas, locally in the hamlet of Talywain, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and vestry, west porch and a western belfry containing one bell; there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1835. 
There is a Catholic chapel, built in 1863, and dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi, two Baptist chapels one Welsh and one English, and one English and one Welsh Congregational; there is also a Bible Christian chapel and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. 
The soil is gravelly, subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley and some land in pasturage. The area is 10,129 acres, ratable value, £43,441, and the population in 1891 was 15,296. The population of the St. Thomas ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 8,843. (From A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis, 1848)