Amberley is a settlement in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
Marden in Herefordshire, England.
Recorded in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...
, it was in the
hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ...
of Tornelaus. In the
National Gazetteer of Britain and Ireland of 1868, it was listed as being in the hundred of
Broxash, about east of the village church of
Marden.
Amberley has a Grade II* listed chapel built between the 12th and 14th centuries, and restored in 1865. Amberley Court is a 14th-century, Grade I listed country house.
References
External links
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Amberley Herefordshire - A vision of Britain Through TimeAmberley - Explore BritainGeograph images for OS Grid SO5447
Hamlets in Herefordshire
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