Clodock, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Clodock, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the river Monnow, under the Black Mountains, 4 miles N of Pandy station on the G.W.R., and 9 from Abergavenny. Post town, Abergavenny; money order office, Longtown; telegraph office, Llanfihangel-Crucomey. The parish includes the townships of Longtown, Llanveynoe, Crass-wall, and Newton. Acreage, 17,803; population of the civil parish, 1296; of the ecclesiastical, 1073. An old castle and a camp are here on the line of Watling Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £130. The church is Early English, with a Norman tower. Newton forms a separate ecclesiastical parish.

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 Clodock from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Clodock 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