Aconbury, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Aconbury, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 2½ miles WSW of Holme-Lacy station on the G.W.R., and 4½ SSE of Hereford, and is an old-fashioned sequestered place, surrounded by woods. The parish comprises 1692 acres; population, 124. Its post town is Hereford. The governors of Guy's Hospital are lords of the manor, having purchased the property of the Duke of Chandos. Aconbury Hill, to the S of the village, 719 feet high and well wooded, commands an extensive and very fine prospect. An Augustinian nunnery, founded in the reign of King John, anciently stood in Aconbury Forest; its remains have been converted into a farmhouse, called Aconbury Court. The living is annexed to the rectory of Little Birch; net value, £196. The church is a small ancient Gothic building, restored by Scott 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 | Acconbury St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Wormelow | |
Poor Law union | Hereford | |
Registration district | Hereford | 1837 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aconbury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Acconbury, or Acornbury (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 Aconbury 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: