Grafton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Grafton, a parish in Herefordshire, 2½ miles SW of Hereford city. It is annexed for ecclesiastical purposes to the parish of Upper Bullinghope. Acreage, 1042; population, 126. Graftonbury is the chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Civil parish | All Saints Hereford | |
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 Grafton from 1837 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Grafton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Grafton 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: