Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Ewyas-Harold, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Monnow, 1 mile NW of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R., and 11½ miles SW of Hereford, with a post and money order office under Pontrilas (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Pontrilas. Acreage, 1853; population, 507. A castle was built here by King Harold, but has disappeared. A small priory of Benedictine monks, afterwards a cell to Gloucester Abbey, was founded here about 1100. Ewyas was formerly a lordship, extending to the vale of Honddu beyond the Black Mountains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford: net value, £90 with residence. Patron, Bishop of Gloucester. The church is Early English and was restored in 1868. It contains an ancient tomb. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Ewyas Harold from 1837 to 1838 you should search for the Dore Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Ewyas Harold from 1838 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ewyas Harold from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ewyas-Harrold (St. Michael))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ewyas Harold 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