Yarpole, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Yarpole, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 2 miles W by N of Berrington and Eye station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (L. & N.W. and G.W. Joint) railway, and 5 NNW of Leominster. There is a post office under Leominster; money order and tekgraph office, Orleton. Acreage, 2534; population, 512. Highwood House, Bircher Hall, Bycroft, and the Knoll are chief residences. The living is a vicarage annexed to Croft. The church was restored in 1864. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Plymouth Brethren 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 Yarpole from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Yarpole 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