Newton (Clodock), Herefordshire
Historical Description
Newton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Clodock parish, Herefordshire, on the river Eskley, 4 miles W of Abbeydore, 3 SW of Vowchurch station on the Golden Valley railway, and 5 NW of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R. Post town and telegraph office, Pontrilas (R.S.O.); money order office, Ewyas Harold. Acreage of township, 1754; population, 223. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of Clodock. The church was erected in 1842 and restored 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 | |
Civil parish | Clodock | |
Hundred | Ewyaslacy | |
Poor Law union | Dore |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Newton (Clodock) from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Newton (Clodock) 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: