Hatfield, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Hatfield, a parish in Herefordshire, near the boundary with Worcestershire, 6 miles E of Leominster. It has a post office under Leominster; money order and telegraph office, Bredenbury. Acreage, 1948; population of the civil parish, 241; of the ecclesiastical, 210. Hatfield Court, the chief residence, is a modern mansion; the old Court, an Elizabethan mansion, is a picturesque, ivy-clad ruin. Part of the land is under hops. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £125. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and was partly restored in 1878 by the Ashton family. It has a stained glass window, by Meyer of Munich, to the memory of Thomas Ashton, who died in 1869. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Hatfield St. Leonard | |
Hundred | Wolphy | |
Poor Law union | Leominster |
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 Hatfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hatfield (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hatfield 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: