Putley, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Putley, a parish in Herefordshire, 2½ miles S by W of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and 5 W of Ledbury. It has a post office under Ledbury; money order office, Tarrington; telegraph office, Ledbury. Acreage, 1110; population of the civil parish, 217; of the ecclesiastical, 174. Putley Court is the chief residence. Roman remains have been. found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £112 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is ancient and was restored in 1876. In the churchyard is an Early English preaching; cross.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Hundred | Greytree | |
Poor Law union | Ledbury |
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 Putley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Putley 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: