Cradley, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Cradley, a village, a township, and a parish in Herefordshire, under the Malvern Hills, at the boundary with Worcestershire, 4 miles N of Colwall station on the G.W.R., and 8 SE of Bromyard. There is a post office under Malvern; money order office, Stifford's Bridge; telegraph office, West Malvern. The parish includes the ecclesiastical parish of Storridge, and parts of those of West Malvern and Cowleigh. Acreage, 6075; population of the civil parish, 1746; of the ecclesiastical, 886. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £482 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The parish church was restored in 1870.
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 | Cradley St. James | |
Hundred | Radlow | |
Poor Law union | Bromyard |
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 Cradley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cradley (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cradley 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: