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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Encyclopedias
Penkridge
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town in the western parliamentary division of Staffordshire, England; 134 m. N.W. from London by the London & North-Western railway, on the small river Penk. Pop. (1901), 2347. Trade is chiefly agricultural and there are stone-quarries in the vicinity. The church of St Michael and All Angels, formerly collegiate and dedicated to St Mary, is a fine building principally Perpendicular, but with earlier portions. The Roman Watling Street passes from east to west 3 m. south of Penkridge. In the neighbourhood is Pillaton Hall, retaining a picturesque chapel of the 15th century.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Penkridge'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/penkridge.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Penkridge'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/penkridge.html. 1910.
