Gladestry, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Gladestry, a village and a parish in Radnorshire, on the Gwyddel, near the boundary with Herefordshire, 4 miles SSE of New Eadnor. The parish contains the hamlets of Hen-goed and Wainwen, and it has a post office under Kington; money order office, New Eadnor; telegraph office, Kington; railway station, Dolyher, on the G.W.R., 2¼ miles distant. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's; value, £287. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, dedicatedto St Mary, is ancient. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Gladestry 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: