Pencombe, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Pencombe, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 4 miles WSW of Bromyard, and 6 E of Dinmore station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (L. & N.W. and G.W. Joint) railway, and has a post office under Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Bredenbury. The parish contains also the hamlet of Marston Stannett, and comprises 4080 acres; population of the civil parish, 268; of the ecclesiastical, 290. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £400 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1865, is in the Transition Norman style, and consists of nave, apsidal chancel with vestry, S porch, and SE tower. There is also a chapel at Marston Stannett, which is a sinecure and a perpetual curacy.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pencombe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pencombe)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pencombe 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