Eardisland, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Eardisland, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Arrow, near Watling Street, 2 miles SW of Kings-land station on the G.W.R., and 5 W of Leominster. The village contains some half-timbered houses dating from the 14th century, and has a reading-room and library. It has a post office under Pembridge (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Pembridge. Acreage, 3656; population of the civil parish, 500; of the ecclesiastical, 684. Burton Court is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £268. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church, originally Early English, lias portions of a later period, and was restored in 1864. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A moated mound at the Court House, and a dovecote at the Porch House are objects of great interest.

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 Eardisland from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Eardisland 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