Clehonger, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Clehonger, a village, a township, and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 4 miles SW of Hereford, with a post office under Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Hereford. The parish comprises 2152 acres; population of civil parish, 430; of ecclesiastical, 413. Belmont is the seat of the lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is late Early English, but retains much Norman work, and contains an effigy of Sir William Pembridge, one of the first Knights of the Garter, and other monuments. A Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral was erected here in 1856.
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 | Clehonger All Saints | |
Hundred | Webtree | |
Poor Law union | Hereford | |
Registration district | Hereford | 1837 - 1974 |
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.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Clehonger from 1837 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Clehonger from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clehonger (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Clehonger 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: