Lower Harpton, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Harpton, Lower, a township in the parish of Old Radnor, Radnorshire, but situated in Herefordshire, 3½' miles. NW of Kington. Acreage, 843; population, 70.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Old Radnor | |
| Hundred | Wigmore | |
| 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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lower Harpton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harpton, Lower)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lower Harpton 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: