Aston Ingham, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Aston-Ingham, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the verge of the county, 2 miles N by E of Mitcheldean Road station on the G.W.R., 3 of Newent station on the G.W.R., and 5 E of Ross, which is the post town; money order office, Kilcote, 1 mile S; telegraph office, Newent, 3 miles NE. Acreage, 2366; population, 460. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £450. The church is ancient, partly Norman, of the 12th century. It was restored and nearly rebuilt in 1891 at a cost of over £1700.

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 Aston Ingham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aston-Ingham)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Aston Ingham 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