Mansell Lacy, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Mansell Lacy, a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Wye, 2¼ miles NW of Credenhill station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon section of the M.R., 4¼ SSE of Weobly, and 7 NW of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 1316; population, 195. It includes the hamlet of Westmoor. The living is a vicarage, united with Yazor, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £165. The;-church, dedicated to St Michael, is ancient, and was restored in 1860.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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

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

Land and Property

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times