Downton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Downton, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Teme, near the boundary with Salop, 5 miles SW of Bromfield station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W.R. and G.W.R.) railway, and 5½ W by S of Ludlow. Post town, Ludlow; money order and telegraph office, Leintwar-dine. Acreage of the civil parish, 1220; population, 162; of the ecclesiastical, 156. Downton Castle is a spacious modern edifice in mixed Grecian and Gothic styles, built by R. Payne Knight, and stands amid romantic scenery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £150 with residence. The church was built in 1862, and is in the Early English style, somewhat richly decorated.
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 | Downton St. Giles | |
Hundred | Wigmore | |
Poor Law union | Ludlow |
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 Downton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Downton (St. Giles))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Downton 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: