Ocle Pychard, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Ocle Pychard, a parish in Herefordshire, 3½ miles N by W of Stoke Edith on the G.W.R., and 7 SW by W of Bromyard. It includes Ocle Livers, and it has a post office called Burley Gate, under Hereford; money order office, Sutton St Nicholas; telegraph office, Burley Gate railway station. Acreage, 1905; population, 289. Ocle Court is the chief residence. The S side of the parish is traversed by the Hereford and Gloucester Canal. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £134 with residence. The church is ancient, has a fine tower and some good painted windows, and was restored in 1869.

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ocle Pychard from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ocle-Pitchard (St. James))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ocle Pychard 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