Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Dewchurch, Much, a village and parish in Herefordshire. The village is 2¼ miles SW of Tram Inn station on the G.W.R., and 6½ SSW of Hereford. It has a post and money order office under Tram Inn (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Tram Inn. The parish comprises 4921 acres, and includes the hamlet of Kiverknoll; population, 585. Mynde Park and Bryngwyn are the chief residences. A Roman camp is near the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £335 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1877. It contains some ancient monuments, and in the churchyard is an old preaching cross, restored in 1871.
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 | Much Dewchurch St. Thomas the Martyr | |
| Hundred | Wormelow | |
| 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 Much Dewchurch from 1837 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Much Dewchurch from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dewchurch, Much (St. Thomas the Martyr))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Much Dewchurch 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: