Walford, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Walford, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 3 miles SSW of Ross, with a station at Kerne Bridge on the Monmouth and Ross branch of the G.W.R., tind a post and money order office under Ross; telegraph office, Goodrich. The parish comprises 4340 acres; population of the civil parish, 1116; of the ecclesiastical, 730. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Walford Court, now a farmhouse, was the seat of the Kyrle family, one of whom was a Parliamentary leader in the Civil War, and entertained Cromwell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £182 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is Norman and Early English, and was restored in 1887. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Plymouth Brethren chapels, and a chapel of ease is at Howle Hill.

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 Walford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Walford 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