Pencoyd, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Pencoyd, a parish in Herefordshire, 6 miles WNW of Ross. It includes the hamlet of Netherton and part of Harewood End. There is a post and money order office at Harewood End, under Ross; telegraph office, Hoarwithy. Acreage, 890; population, 173. There is no parish council, but Pencoyd sends one member to the district council of Ross. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Marstow, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1878.

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 Pencoyd from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Pencoyd 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