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Ganarew
Ganarew (from Welsh: ''Genau'r Rhiw''; 'Gana-rhiw', and 'Gan y rew') is a village and small civil parish in south Herefordshire, England near the River Wye and the border with Wales. The village is located southwest of the village of Whitchurch on the main A40 road, and lies within the electoral ward of Kerne Bridge. The village is about from Monmouth and from Ross-on-Wye. It contains the Church of St Swithin and Ganarew Manor. ==History== The name Gana-rhiw, now Ganarew, may derive from the Briton "Gan", from ''genau'', meaning "a mouth or opening of a pass"; "Rhiw" is the Welsh word for "hill". The ''Imperial Gazetteer'' of 1855 recorded Ganarew's population as 147, and that it was in size. In 1868, the ''National Gazetteer'' noted that there was an observatory, high, on the summit of nearby Little Doward Hill (or Ganarew Hill), from the top of which a view could be obtained of the Bristol Channel.〔("Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868" at genuki.org.uk )〕 By 1904, The ''Survey Gazetteer'' recorded the population as 132, and that there were .
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