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ABENHALL, (or Abinghall), a parish in the hundred of St. Briavell, in the county of Gloucester, 1 mile S.E. of Mitcheldean. Newnham is the post-town. It is situated in a pleasant district of the Forest of Dean, and had at one time a seat of the abbots of Flaxley. There is a mineral spring in the parish, called St. Anthony's, which is in repute for its efficacy in cases of cutaneous eruption. Gun's paper-mills, a large establishment, gives employment to many hands. The living is a rectory*, value £142, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The patron is the Rev. J. Probyn."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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