Castle Frome, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Castle-Frome, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Frome, 5 miles NNE of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and 6½ NNW of Ledbury, which is the post town; money order office, Bosbury; telegraph office, Ashperton railway station. Acreage, 1567; population, 165. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £222 with residence. The church is small, consisting of chancel, nave, and tower, with spire, and was restored in 1878; it contains a curious Norman font.

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 Castle Frome from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Castle Frome 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