Bredenbury, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Bredenbury or Bridenbury, a parish in Herefordshire, 3 miles WNW of Bromyard. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Worcester. Acreage, 852; population of the civil parish, 110; of the ecclesiastical, with Wacton, 171. Bredenbury Court is the seat of the lord of the manor. The parish was for ecclesiastical purposes united with Wacton in 1876, and in 1882 portion of the township of Winslow and of the parish of Avenbury were added. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Wacton annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £168 with residence. The old church was pulled down in 1876, and a new one erected.

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 Bredenbury from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Bredenbury 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