Winforton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Winforton, a parish in Herefordshire, 1½ mile SW of Eardisley station on the M.R. and G.W.R., and 6 NE of Hay. It has a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Eardisley. Acreage, 1114; population, 132. Winforton House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £113 with residence. The church is very ancient, and was entirely restored in 1894-95.
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 | Winforton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Huntington | |
Poor Law union | Kington | |
Registration district | Kington | 1837 - 1839 |
Registration district | Presteigne | 1838 - 1870 |
Registration district | Kington | 1870 - 1974 |
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.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Winforton from 1837 to 1839 you should search for the Kington Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Winforton from 1838 to 1870 you should search for the Presteigne Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in Winforton from 1870 to 1974 you should search for the Kington Registration District.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Winforton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winforton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Winforton 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: