Stoke Prior, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Stoke Prior, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village lies on the river Lugg, 1 mile NE of Ford Bridge station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 2¼ miles SSE of Leominster. It has a post and money order office under Leominster; telegraph office, Leominster. The parish includes the hamlet of Wickton, and comprises 2333 acres; population of the civil parish, 411; of the ecclesiastical, with Docklow, 664. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Roman coins and other Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory, united with Docklow, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leominster. The church has a Norman nave and an Early English chancel, and was partly rebuilt in 1863. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Stoke Prior from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stoke-Prior)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Stoke Prior 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:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times