Kimbolton, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Kimbolton, a township and a parish in Herefordshire. The township stands on an eminence, 2½ miles NE of Leo-minster. It has a post office under Leominster; money order and telegraph office, Leominster. The parish comprises also the townships of Hamnish Clifford and Stockton. Acreage, 4140; population, 599. Traces exist of a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Middleton-on-the-Hill, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £302. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is old and cruciform, has a tower and spire, and was restored in 1875. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Kimbolton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kimbolton 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