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''For the locality Orleton, Worcestershire, see Stanford-on-Teme'' Orleton is a village in northern Herefordshire, England, at , about 7 km north of Leominster. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 794.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil parish population 2011 )〕 The village is known for its parish church, St George's, where, legend holds, the resurrection of the dead will begin at the Last Trump. Items of interest in the church include: * a twelfth-century font, characteristic of the Herefordshire School of Norman carving * a Jacobean pulpit * a clock dating from about 1700 * a Norman carving of a dragon, later used as a clock weight * two thirteenth-century dug-out chests. The Welsh Marches railway line runs south-east of the village and the Woofferton transmitting station lies to the north-east. ==References== 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「Orleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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