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2 unusual facts about Kilvert


Kilvert

John Ashley Kilvert (1833-1920), English soldier, Mayor of Wednesbury, who survived the Charge of the Light Brigade

Francis Edwin Kilvert (1838–1910), lawyer and mayor of Hamilton, Ontario


Clyro

This part of Wales, including the villages of Clyro, Capel-y-ffin, Llowes, Glasbury, Llanigon, Painscastle, and the town of Hay-on-Wye, as well as Clifford and Whitney-on-Wye in neighbouring Herefordshire, is sometimes referred to as "Kilvert Country".

Langley Burrell

The Georgian parsonage was for many years the home of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of the diarist Francis Kilvert, who from 1863 to 1864 and 1872 to 1876 was curate to his father here.


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