Ashperton, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Ashperton, a parish in Herefordshire, near the river Frome, 5 miles NW of Ledbury. It has a station on the G.W.R. Post town, Canon Frome Gate; money order office, Tarrington; telegraph office, Bosbury. Acreage, 1692; population of the civil parish, 362; of the ecclesiastical district, 608. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Stretton-Grandison, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is an ancient edifice, with an embattled tower added at its restoration in 1840. Ashperton parish is part of the parish of Stretton-Grandison, Ashperton church being described as a chapelry.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Ashperton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashperton (St. Bartholomew))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Ashperton 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:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times