Tedstone Wafer, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Tedstone Wafer, a parish in Herefordshire, 3½ miles NNE of Bromyard. It has a post office under Worcester; money order office, Whitbourne; telegraph office, Bromyard, Acreage, 687; population, 83. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Edvin Loach. The old church is now disused, a modern one having been built.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
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 Wafer from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tedstone-Wafer)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tedstone Wafer 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: