Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Weston-under-Penyard, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 2½ miles SE of Ross, with a post and money order office under Ross. The parish comprises 3210 acres; population of the civil parish, 809; of the ecclesiastical, 780. The manor belongs to Lord Ashburton. Frogmore House, Parkfields, Penyard House, and Rudhall are chief residences. Remains of an old castle are in Penyard Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £606. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is Norman and Early English, and was restored in 1867. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.

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 Weston under Penyard from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Weston under Penyard 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