Brockhampton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Brockhampton, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 2 miles ENE of Fawley station on the G.W.R., and 6 N of Ross, which is the post town and telegraph office; money order office, How-Caple. Acreage, 1561; population, 228. Brockhampton Manor is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £64. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is of the Decorated period, and has a low western tower; in the churchyard are remains of a preaching cross and fragments of an octagonal monolith.
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 | Brockhampton Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Greytree | |
Poor Law union | Ross |
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 Brockhampton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brockhampton (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brockhampton 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: