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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London. The city comprises the '''parishes''' of St. Alban, All Saints, '''St. Andrew''', St. Clement, St. Helen, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Peter, and St. Swithin. The living of'''St. Andrew's''' is a discharged rectory. There are places of worship for '''Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Independents, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51430#s2 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)''], pp. 673-687. Date accessed and adapted: 31 October 2013.</ref> | WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London. The city comprises the '''parishes''' of St. Alban, All Saints, '''St. Andrew''', St. Clement, St. Helen, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, St. Peter, and St. Swithin. The living of '''St. Andrew's''' is a discharged rectory. There are places of worship for '''Baptists, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Independents, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics'''.<ref>Lewis, Samuel A., [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51430#s2 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)''], pp. 673-687. Date accessed and adapted: 31 October 2013.</ref> | ||
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