Docklow, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Docklow, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Wye, 1½ mile E of Steens Bridge station on the G.W.R., and 5 miles E by S of Leominster, with a post office under Leominster; money order and telegraph office, Bredenbury. Acreage, 1285; population, 169. Buck-land and Oaklands are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Stoke-Prior in the diocese of Hereford; joint net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leominster. The church is old and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1880.

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 Docklow from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Docklow 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