Brimfield, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Brimfield, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands near the river Teme, 1 mile SE of Wooferton station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (G.W. and L. & N.W.) railway, and 5 miles S by E of Ludlow, and has a head post office (R.S.O.) The parish includes also the hamlet of Wyson. Acreage, 1853; population, 560. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value,, £201 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is a plain, good edifice, with a modern tower, and has been restored in 1834 and 1884. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Wyson.

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 Brimfield from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Brimfield 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