Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Tedstone Delamere, a parish in Herefordshire, on Sapey Brook, 4 miles NE of Bromyard. Post town, Worcester; money order and telegraph office, Bromyard. Acreage, 1692; population, 203. The parish contains beautiful scenery. Tedstone Court is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £197 with residence. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is Norman and Early English, and was rebuilt in 1856 by Sir Gilbert Scott. It contains a carved oak chancel screen of Tudor date. In the churchyard are the old Norman font or remains of the old churchyard cross.
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 | Tedstone-Delamere 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 Tedstone Delamere from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tedstone-Delamere (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tedstone Delamere 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: