Linton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Linton, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the boundary line between Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 3 miles N of Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester section of the G.W.R., and 4½ ENE of Ross. It has a post and money order office under Ross; telegraph office, Ross. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bromsash, Shutton, and Studley, and part of the ecclesiastical parish of Gorsley, with Clifford's Mesne. Acreage, 2775; population of the civil parish, 805; of the ecclesiastical, 450. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £376 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is ancient, has a tower and spire, and was restored in 1876.
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 | Linton St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Greytree | |
| Poor Law union | Newent |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Linton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Linton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Linton 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: