Much Birch, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Birch, Much, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 3½ miles SE of Tram-Inn station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the G.W.R., and 6½ S of Hereford, with a post and money order office under Tram-Inn (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Hoarwithy. Acreage, 1303; population, 470. Birch House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £76 with residence. The church is modern.

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.

For births, marriages, and deaths in Much Birch from 1837 to 1974 you should search for the Hereford Registration District.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Much Birch from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Birch, Much (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Much Birch 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