Yazor, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Yazor, a parish in Herefordshire, 1½ mile ESE of Moorhampton station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon section of the M.R., and 8 miles NW of Hereford. Post town, Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Weobley. Acreage, 2063; population of the civil parish, 215; of the ecclesiastical, with Mansell Lacy, 432. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £118. The church was rebuilt in 1855.
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 | Yazor St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
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 Yazor from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Yazor (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Yazor 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: