Bemerton
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Bemerton has claim to fame as the parish where George Herbert was rector and where he is buried.
Bemerton, once a separate village to the west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, is now virtually a suburb of that city.
There are three parish churches ranging from the 13th century, St Andrew’s, in which Herbert served and is buried, to St John’s, a Victorian construction, and St Michael’s, built in 1957.
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The poet George Herbert, the most famous, was Rector of St Andrew’s from 1630 until his death in 1633. John Norris who was rector from 1692 until 1711 was a more famous poet during his lifetime than Herbert was in his, although his work is now largely forgotten. William Coxe (1748 – 1828), the rector from 1788 – 1828 wrote travel books, biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and others, and a history of the county of Montgomery.
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