Bishops Frome, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Bishops-Frome, a township and a parish in the county of Hereford. The township lies on the river Frome, 4½ miles S of Bromyard, and 5½ N of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and has a post and money order office under Worcester; telegraph office, Bromyard. The parish includes also the townships of Halmonds-Frome, Leadon, Walton, and Stanford-Eegis. Acreage, 3983; population, 718. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £406 with residence. The church was restored in 1863; it is partly Norman and Early English, and contains many ancient monuments. A chapel of ease and a Congregational chapel are situated at Frome Hill, and a Wesleyan chapel at Bishops-Frome.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bishops Frome from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Froome, Bishop's (St. Mary, or St. Bartholomew))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bishops Frome are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times