Eaton Bishop, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Eaton-Bishop, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, near the river Wye, 5¼ miles W by S of Hereford. There is a post office; money order office, Madley; telegraph office. Hereford. Acreage, 1660; population of the civil parish, 360: of the ecclesiastical, 431. Lower Eaton, Sugwas Court, and Cagebrook are the chief residences. At Sugwas was formerly a palace of the Bishops of Hereford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £312 witli residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church was originally Norman, and was restored in 1886; it retains portions of Early English and Decorated work. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Plymouth Brethren chapels.
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 | Eaton Bishop St. Michael | |
Hundred | Webtree | |
Poor Law union | Hereford | |
Registration district | Hereford | 1837 - 1974 |
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.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Eaton Bishop from 1837 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Eaton Bishop from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eaton, Bishop (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Eaton Bishop 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: