Byford, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Byford, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, and the road from Hereford to Brecon, 3 miles S of Moorhampton station on the M.R., 6 S of Weobley,and 7½ WNW of Hereford, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 942; population of the civil parish, 185. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Mansell Gamage, in the diocese of Hereford; net value of Byford, £168 with residence. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 310. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1883; it is a fine building of the £arly English and Decorated periods, and consists of chancel, nave, south transept, south aisle, and an embattled tower.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Byford St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Byford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Byford (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Byford 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: