Pipe and Lyde, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Pipe and Lyde, a parish in Herefordshire, 1½ mile SSW of Moreton station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 3 miles N of Hereford. Post town, Hereford. Acreage, 1640; population, 231. The manor belongs to the governors of Guy's Hospital. Building stone is quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £243 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is partly Norman, partly Early English, and of later dates. The chancel was restored in 1874 and the tower in 1886.
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 | Pipe St. Peter | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Hereford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pipe and Lyde from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pipe (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Pipe and Lyde 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: