Weston Beggard

• the nearest money order office. Telegrams may be sent from With- ington and Stoke Edith railway stations. Post town, Hereford. Part'sh Church (St. Bartholomew's). Rev. William Henry Lam bert, M.A., Rector/ Rev. Samuel John Butcher, M.A., Curate/ Messrs. John Munn and William Moseley, Churchwardens/ James Williams, Parz''sh Clerk. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. T. G. Bufton, Ode Pychard.

CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place Return at Thomas Taylor Wed. & Sat. White Lion 3 0

PRIVATE RESIDENT. Munn, John, farmer and hop grower Panniers, William, farmer, Lower farm Butcher, Rev. Sa~uel John, M.A., Parsons, Thomas, farmer, Dodmarsh, res. {curate), The Parsonage Ash grove Seabourne, William, farmer and hop COMMERCIAL. g-rower, Court farm ; bailiff to Colonel Berrow, Mrs. Caroline, Porch house Scott Bowen, Frank, grocer, &c., Dodmarsh Smith, Samuel, farmer and hop grower, Corbett, J oseph, blacksmith, Dodmarsh Woodmanton J ones, J ames, farmer & hop grower, The Taylor, John, grocer, &c., Dodmarsh Farm Williams, J ames, parish clerk Moseley, William, farmer & hop grower, Williams, Mrs. E., hop grower, Townsend Upper house

WESTON BEGGARD. WESTON BEGGARD is a parish intersected by the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway, and situated between the roads from Hereford to Ledbury, and from Hereford to Worcester (over Frame hill). It is distant s! miles E.N.E. of Hereford, 9 W.N.W. of Led bury, and I r S.W. of Bromyard; is in Radlow hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Lugwardine polling district and electoral division of the county council. The nearest railway stations are at Stoke Edith and Withington. This parish derives the latter part of its name from Bagard, a former landed proprietor and lord of the manor, whose name was probably corrupted from Bigod, an earl famous in the time of Henry III. The population in I 8 7 I was 2 96 ; in I 8 8 I, 2 7 I ; in habited houses, 64; families or separate occupiers, 65 ; area of parish, 894 acres; annual rateable value, £2,848. By a provisional order which came into operation on 25th March, r885, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of this parish was amalgamated with Yarkhill for civil purposes. The Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, of Stoke Edith park, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. Mr. Thomas Davies and Mr. Frederick William Morris are also land owners here. The soil is a red loam with a subsoil of marl and clay; it is well adapted to the growth of corn, fruit, hops, and other kinds of agricultural produce. West on Beggard is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston ; living, a vicarage ; value, £I 31, with residence and 2:! acres of glebe ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, Rev. George