Little Marcle, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Marcle, Little, a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Leadon, adjacent to Gloucestershire, 3 miles SW of Ledbury. It has a post office under Ledbury; money order and telegraph office, Ledbury. Acreage, 1249; population, 152. Little Marcle Court, formerly a seat of the Hanbury family, is now occupied by cottagers. The surface is boldly undulating. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; netvalue, £150 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. A new church on a fresh site was built in 1869, and is in the Decorated style, with a bell-turret.

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 Little Marcle from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marcle, Little)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Little Marcle 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