Stanford Bishop, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Stanford Bishop, a parish in Herefordshire, 3 miles SE of Bromyard. Post town, Bromyard, under Worcester. Acreage, 1514; population, 193. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £160. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1885.
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 | Stanford Bishops St. James | |
Hundred | Broxash | |
Poor Law union | Bromyard |
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 Stanford Bishop from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanford, Bishops (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stanford Bishop 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: