Brobury, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Brobury, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 3 miles S of Kinnersley station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 8½ E by N of Hay. Post town, Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 830; population, 66. Brobury Scar, a hill in the neighbourhood, is a bold grand object, amid the fine scenery of the Wye. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Bredwardine, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is a small plain Early English edifice, and contains an ancient font and canopied tomb. It is now used as a mortuary chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Brobury St. Mary | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
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 Brobury from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brobury (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Brobury 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: