Peterstow, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Peterstow, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 2¼ miles W by N of Ross, with a post office under Ross; money order and telegraph office, Ross. The parish comprises 1274 acres; population of the civil parish, 304; of the ecclesiastical, 329. The manor belongs to Guy's Hospital. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £327 with residence. The church is very ancient, chiefly Norman.
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 | Peterstow St. Peter | |
| Hundred | Wormelow | |
| Poor Law union | Ross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Peterstow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Peterstow (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Peterstow 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: