Yarpole (St. Leonard)

YARPOLE (St. Leonard), a parish, in the union of Leominster, hundred of Wolphy, county of Hereford, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Leominster; containing, with the township of Bircher, 606 inhabitants, of whom 349 are in the township of Yarpole. The parish consists of 2523 acres, of which 399 are common or waste land. The road from Leominster to Ludlow passes about a mile eastward of the village. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Croft; impropriators, the Trustees of Lucton school. The great tithes have been commuted for £273, and those of the vicar for £27; there are 23 acres of glebe.