Almeley, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Almeley, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 4½ miles SE of Kington, with a station on the G.W.R. The parish includes the township of Hopley's Green and Logaston, and has a post office under Eardisley (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3449; population, 527. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £237. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient, dating from the 14th century, had once a chantry, and 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 | Almeley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Wolphy | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Almeley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Almeley (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Almeley 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: