Kinnersley, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Kinnersley, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 4 miles SSE of Weobly, and 8 ENE of Kington, and has a station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R. It has a post office under Letton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Eardisley. The parish contains also the township of Newchurch. Acreage, 2249; population, 305. Kinnersley Castle, an old building of the time of James I., standing in well-wooded grounds, and on the site of a fortalice once of some importance, is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; tithe rent charge, £420 with residence. The church, with a semi-detached saddleback tower, dates from the 12th to the 14th century, and was restored in 1868.

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 Kinnersley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kinnersley 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