How Caple, Herefordshire
Historical Description
How Caple, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands near the river Wye, 2½ miles ENE of Fawley station on the Hereford, Eoss, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and 4½ NNE of Eoss, and has a post and telegraph office under Eoss; money order office, Crowbill. The parish comprises 1015 acres; population of the civil parish, 89;, of the ecclesiastical district, 180. How Caple Court was the chief residence of the Capel family from the 12th to the 17th century, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Sellers Hope, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £299. The church is cruciform, was rebuilt about 1690 by Sir William Gregory, and contains several monuments to him and other members of the family. 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.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | How-Caple St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Greytree | |
Poor Law union | Ross |
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 How Caple from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (How-Caple (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of How Caple 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: