Mansell Gamage, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Mansell Gamage, a parish in Herefordshire, 2 miles SSE of Moorhampton station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon section of the M.R., and 5 S of Weobly. Post town, Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Stannton-on-Wye. Acreage, 1376; population, 125. Offa's Dyke passes through the parish. Garnons, a fine castellated mansion, is the seat of the baronet family of Cotterell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £80. The church is chiefly Decorated, and was restored and enlarged in 1877. It contains a sculptured sepulchral slab of the 13th century, and tablets to the Cotterell family.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Mansell Gamage from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mansell-Gamage (St. Giles))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Mansell Gamage 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