Ledbury, a pleasant, old-fashioned market-town of Herefordshire, 13 miles ESE. of Hereford. It has an interesting church, Romanesque to Perpendicular in style, St Catharine's Hospital (1232; rebuilt 1822), and a clock-tower (1890) to the memory of Mrs Browning (q.v.). Pop. of parish (1851) 4264; (1891) 4303.
Ledbury
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 554
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