Sellack, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Sellack, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 2 miles SW of Fawley station on the G.W.R., and 3½ NW by N of Ross. There are post offices at Pict's Cross and Backney, under Ross; money order office, Ross; telegraph office, Hoarwithy. Acreage, 2065; population of the civil parish, 339; of the ecclesiastical, with King's Caple, 616. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Caradoc, a fine Elizabethan mansion, occupies the site of an ancient castle, which is said to have belonged to one of the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table. Pengethly is another residence. The living is a vicarage, united with King's Caple, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £70. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church, which was enlarged in 1841, contains monuments to the Pengethly and Scudamore families.
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 | Sellack St. Tesiliah | |
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 Sellack from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sellack (St. Tesiliah))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sellack 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: