Middleton on the Hill, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Middleton-on-the-Hill, a parish in Herefordshire, near the boundary with Salop, 3 miles W by S of Easton Court station, and S½ E of Berrington and Eye station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, 5 SW of Tenbury, and 5 NE by N of Leominster. Post town, Tenbury; money order office, Brimfield. Acreage, 2997; population, 308. There are quarries. Moor Abbey is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Kimbolton, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient, and has a large tower.
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 | Middleton-on-the-Hill St. Mary | |
Hundred | Wolphy | |
Poor Law union | Leominster |
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 Middleton on the Hill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Middleton-on-the-Hill (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Middleton on the Hill 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: