Brilley St Mary, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Brilley St Mary, a parish in Herefordshire, on the verge of the county, near the river Wye, 1½ mile NW of Whitney-on-the-Wye station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 5½ miles NNE of Hay. Post town, Whitney (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Hay. Acreage, 3926; population, 390. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Michaelchurch in Radnorshire, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £268 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1862. There is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel and a meeting-house.

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brilley St Mary from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Brilley St Mary 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