Garway, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Garway, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the-, river Monnow, 5 miles SE of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R.,.and 7 NNW of Monmouth. Post town, Ross; money order i office, St Weonard's; telegraph office, Skenfrith. ' Acreage½, 3625; population, 408. The parish includes the hamlets of Garway Common and Broad Oak. The scenery is very fine, and Garway Hill is a conspicuous feature. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £85. The church is Norman, has a detached tower, and a fine dog-toothed chancel arch, restored. Close to the church is a specimen of a dovecot tower. There is a Baptist chapel.
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 | Garway St. Michael | |
Hundred | Wormelow | |
Poor Law union | Monmouth | |
Registration district | Monmouth | 1837 - 1935 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Garway from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Garway (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Garway 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: