Brampton Abbots, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Brampton-Abbots, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 1½ mile N of Ross, under which there is a post office, and at which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of the civil parish, 1520; population, 221; of the ecclesiastical, 214. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £256 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is a fine old Norman edifice, restored in 1857.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brampton Abbots from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brampton-Abbots (St. Michael))

Land and Property

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times