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Bredwardine is a village in Herefordshire, England, located off the B4352 road in the west of the county. Features include a brick bridge over the River Wye, a historic late 17th century coaching inn〔Herefordshire - Nikolaus Pevsner 1963〕 named the Red Lion, St Andrews parish church and the site of Bredwardine Castle. The name is pronounced to rhyme with "dine" and means "Brid's farm".〔Herefordshire placenames ()〕 The Wye Valley Walk passes through the village. ==Famous residents== *Rowland Vaughan (1559–1629), landowner and pioneer of irrigation, was born in Bredwardine.〔Hadrian Cook, et al. "The origin of water meadows in England". British Agricultural History Society. (Retrieved 4 March 2014. )〕 *Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894), archaeologist, was raised in Bredwardine, where his father was vicar.〔ODNB: B. F. Cook, "Newton, Sir Charles Thomas (bap. 1816, d. 1894)", (Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled. )〕 *Francis Kilvert, diarist and cleric, was vicar of Bredwardine from late 1877 until his death on 23 September 1879.〔ODNB: A. L. Le Quesne, "Kilvert, (Robert) Francis (1840–1879)", rev. Brenda Colloms (Retrieved 4 March 2014, pay-walled. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bredwardine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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