Hope Mansell, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Hope Mansell, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands in a valley engirt with wooded hills, adjacent to Dean Forest in Gloucestershire, 3 miles W of Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and 4½ SSE of Boss. It has a post office-under Ross; money order and telegraph office, Drybrook. The parish comprises 1123 acres; population of the civil parish, 210; of the ecclesiastical, 197. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Euroclydon and Beechwood are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £158 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and-contains a very old stone font. It was restored in 1889.

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 Hope Mansell from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hope Mansell 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