Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Stretton Grandison or Stretton Grandsome, a parish in Herefordshire, 3 miles NNW of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and 6½ NW of Ledbury. Post town, Ledbury; money order office, Tarrington; telegraph office, Stoke Edith railway station. Acreage, 841; population of the civil parish, 78; of the ecclesiastical, with Ashperton and Eggleton, 608. There are traces of a Roman camp. Homend is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Ashperton attached, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £214 with residence. The church is good.

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.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1558

Churches

The church of St. Lawrence is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with octagonal spire, containing 6 bells: the east window is a memorial to the Rev. William Parsons Hopton, a former vicar of this parish, who died in 1841, and there are three other stained windows erected as memorials to members of the Poole family; the church affords sittings for 200.

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 Stretton Grandison from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stretton-Grandisome (St. Lawrence))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stretton Grandison 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