Humber, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Humber, a parish in Herefordshire, on Humber brook, an affluent of the river Lugg, 3 miles SE of Leominster. It includes the township of Risbury, and has a station called Steens Bridge, on the Leominster and Bromyard branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Leominster. Acreage, 1836; population of the civil parish, 239; of the ecclesiastical, 192. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £140 with residence. The church is ancient, and has a tower with spire, which was restored in 1884. The church itself was restored in 1878, when the N transept was added.

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 Humber from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Humber (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Humber 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