Llanwarne, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Llanwarne, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Wye, 4½ miles SE of Tram Inn station on the G.W.R., and 63- NW by W of Ross. There is a post office under Tram Inn (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Tram Inn. Acreage, 2473; population, 323. Lyston Court is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £300 with residence. Thfr old church was a fine specimen of Saxon; consisted of nave, aisles, and chancel, with finely embattled tower, which with north chapel and part of the walls still stand. The new church was built in 1864 at a cost of £2560, is in the Decorated style and cruciform, of local stone with Bath stone-dressings, and has window tracery of Painswick stone. 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 Llanwarne from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Llanwarne (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Llanwarne 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