Munsley, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Munsley, a parish in Herefordshire, 1 mile NE of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles NW of Ledbury Post town, Ledbury; money order office, The Trumpet; telegraph office, Ashperton railway station. Acreage, 1487; population of the civil parish, 211; of the ecclesiastical, with Canon Frome, 284. The living is a rectory, united with Canon Frome, in the diocese of Hereford; joint net value, £276 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1863.
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 | Munsley St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Radlow | |
Poor Law union | Ledbury |
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 Munsley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Munsley (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Munsley 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: