Hadzor is a small village near
Droitwich
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, England. There are around fourteen houses and a Roman Catholic church in the village, although there is no shop or school and the
Church of England
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church was closed in the 1970s. Hadzor is part of the
Bowbrook Group of Parishes, which includes the neighbouring villages of Sale Green,
Oddingley and
Hanbury Hanbury may refer to:
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and nearby
Huddington,
Crowle,
Tibberton and
Himbleton
Himbleton is a village in Worcestershire, England. It lies about south-east of Droitwich and north-east of Worcester. There is an Anglican church, dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
Located on Neight Hill in the village is a first school, Himb ...
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Frances Amelia ( Arthur), wife of Theodore Howard Galton, converted to Catholicism in 1862, followed a few months later by her husband. In 1877, the Galtons came into possession of Hadzor House. They opened a Catholic chapel in the house and arranged for Mass to be celebrated by a Passionist priest from
Broadway
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** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
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In 2003, a number of new houses were built on the borders of the village by developer Neil Grinnal. These are not granted direct access to the village, and have thus been dubbed 'New Hadzor' or 'the housing estate', not being considered part of the original village. A long campaign was led against this development under the banner 'keep Hadzor special', but failed to prevent around 70 houses being built. As a consequence of the development, however, Hadzor has since been awarded a village green on land formerly belonging to Hadzor Hall, a large hall formerly owned by Neil Grinnall.
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Villages in Worcestershire
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