Holmer, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Holmer, a village, a township, and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 2 miles N of Hereford, and has a post office under Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Hereford. Acreage of the township, 1371; population, 482. Holmer with the township of Shelwick are outside the municipal limits of Hereford, but there is a large portion of the parish within the city limits, which is called Holmer Within. Hnntington, a chapelry annexed to Holmer, is also in the city of Hereford. The acreage of the entire parish is 3519 acres; population, 2427. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Huntington annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, ½£279 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The parochial church is Early English, and has a detached tower. The church of Huntington is modern. One mile NW of Hereford is a stone cross, said to commemorate a plague which infested the neighbouring country in 1347.
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 | Holmer St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Hereford | |
Registration district | Hereford | 1884 - 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 Holmer from 1884 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Holmer from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Holmer (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Holmer 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: