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Bewdley |
 | | BEWDLEY, a borough and market-town of the county of Worcester, in the lower division of Doddingtree Hundred, and in the parish of Ribbesford, 114 miles N.W. London, and 13 miles N. by W. from Worcester. |
 | | The population of the parliamentary borough is between 7,000 and 8,000 ; that of Bewdley proper was, in 1831, 3,908, of whom 2,021 were females. |
 | | Bewdley being in the parish of Ribbesford, it has only a chapel of ease for the accommodation of the inhabitants. |
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