Tretire with Michaelchurch, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Tretire-with-Michaelchurch, a parish in Herefordshire, 5½ miles W of Ross. It has a post office under Ross; money order and telegraph office, St Weonards. Acreage, 1382; population, 123. The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Michaelchurch annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £190 with residence. The church of Tretire is very ancient, and was restored in 1856. The vestry contains the remains of a Roman altar, and the churchyard contains some ancient tombs and a sun-dial. There is a small ancient church at Michaelchurch.

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 Tretire with Michaelchurch from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tretire (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Tretire with Michaelchurch 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