Limebrook, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Limebrook, a township in Lingen and Wigmore parishes, Herefordshire, near the river Lugg, 4¼ miles ENE of Presteign. An Augustinian nunnery was founded here in the time of Richard I., and was given at the dissolution to John West and Robert Gratwick.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Civil parish | Wigmore | |
Hundred | Wigmore | |
Poor Law union | Ludlow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Limebrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Limebrook)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Limebrook 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: