Bredwardine
Bredwardine is a village in Herefordshire, England, located off the B4352 road in the west of the county.
Features include a brick bridge over the River Wye, a historic late 17th century coaching inn[1] named the Red Lion, St Andrews parish church and the site of Bredwardine Castle.
The name is pronounced to rhyme with "dine" and means "Brid's farm".[2]
The Wye Valley Walk passes through the village.
Famous residents
- Rowland Vaughan (1559–1629), landowner and pioneer of irrigation, was born in Bredwardine.[3]
- Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894), archaeologist, was raised in Bredwardine, where his father was vicar.[4]
- Francis Kilvert, diarist and cleric, was vicar of Bredwardine from late 1877 until his death on 23 September 1879.[5]
References
- ^ Herefordshire - Nikolaus Pevsner 1963
- ^ Herefordshire placenames
- ^ Hadrian Cook, et al. "The origin of water meadows in England". British Agricultural History Society. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
- ^ ODNB: B. F. Cook, "Newton, Sir Charles Thomas (bap. 1816, d. 1894)", Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled.
- ^ ODNB: A. L. Le Quesne, "Kilvert, (Robert) Francis (1840–1879)", rev. Brenda Colloms Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled.
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