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| | GENUKI: Pembridge, a description from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | PEMBRIDGE (anciently Penebruge) is an extensive parish and village, situated in a very picturesque and fertile district, on the river Arrow, and on the main road between Leominster and Kington. |
 | | Alford, in one of his fields, called the Lower Field, or "Church Gobbetts", a quarter of a mile east from Pembridge, where there are the remains of a camp of an oval shape, surrounded by trenches which are 6 feet deep and 7 feet wide. |
 | | It was once the residence of the Lockards, ten brothers of which family were engaged at the same time in the civil wars of Charles I., and three of them were slain in endeavouring to support the drooping cause of royalty, in the defeat at Richards castle. |
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