Whitbourne, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Whitbourne, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Teme, 2 miles N of Suckley station on the Worcester and Bromyard branch of the G.W.R., and 5 ENE of Bromyard. It has a post and money order office under Worcester; telegraph office, Suckley railway station. Acreage, 3087; population, 672. Whitbourne Court was once a palace of the Bishops of Hereford. Whitbourne Hall, Ferneybank, and Gaines are other principal residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £442 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church was originally Norman, and was restored in 1866. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Whitbourne St. John this Baptist | |
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 Whitbourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitbourne (St. John this Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Whitbourne 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: