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DB GRENDON BISHOP. HEREFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S GRENDON BISHOP. Jones John, assistant overseer, Batchley Thomas Edward, farmer, Westington COM:MERCIAL. Jones Thomas, farmer, Batchley court (postal address, Leominster) Bemand Edwin, farmr. Low.Brockingtn Leighton John. farmer, Grendon house Watkins James, blacksmith Bethell Charles, blacksmith Orgee Frederick, farmer, The Grange Childs Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Orgee Thomas, farmer, Horsnett GRE~DON; WARREN. Edwards Edward, farmer, Newbury Tompkins Thos. carpenter&parish clerk Nicholas John, farmer, Lower Egdon HAMPTON BISHOP is a parish and scattered village Hereford, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Lionel Corbett near the junction of the rivers Frome and Lugg with the M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a Primitive Wye, on the Ledbury and Worcester road through Mordi- Methodist chapel, bnilt in 1887. The parochial charities ford, 3~ miles east-south-east from Hereford station, on the amount to £6 8s. IOd. yearly value. Baskets and sieves Great ''''estern, London and North Western and Midland rail- are made here. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are ways, in the Southern division of the county, Grimsworth lords of the manor, Count Louis Lubienski-Bodenham, of hundred, Hereford union, county court district and petty Rotherwas, Hereford, Mr. T. S. Smith, of Madley, Edwin .sessional division, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry Weare esq. Charles Hampden Lucy esq. Mrs. Bonnor, aoo. and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Andrew is an Mr. William Gibbons are the principal landowners. The ancient edifice of stone in the Norman style, consisting of soil is rich loam j subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are ~hancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a wheat and barley. The area is 2,°72 acres j rateable value, tower on the north side containing clock and 5 bells: there £4,523 j population in 1891 was 340 in the civil, and 302 in is a memorial window in the nave to the Rev. Thomas W. the ecclesiastical parish. Weare M.A. rector of Isfield, Sussex, who died 24 Feb. The children attend the schools at Mordiford & Tupsley [871 j and in the chancel a mural monument to Col. By Local Government Board Order, which came into opera- Thomas Weare K.H. aide-de-camp to the Queen, died 27 tion 24 March, 1884, the part of Tupsley township, not March, 1850; Frances, his daughter, d. 5 August, 1828; included in the borough of Hereford, was amalgamated and Ann, his widow, d. 4 June, 1861: there is a memorial with Hampton Bishop parish -window in the nave to the Rev. Henry James William Stillingfleet M.A. late rector, 1868-87: the tower and vestry Post Office.-David Wigley, sub-pustmaster. Letters by were restored in 1878 at a cost of £1,000 j and the south mail cart from Hereford arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at porch rebuilt in 1889 at a cost of £100. The register dates 5·55 p.m. Hereford is the nearest money order & tele- from the year 1670. The living is a rectory, commuted graph office tithe rent-charge £278, net yearly value £200, including 5 Carriers from Fownhope, Checkley & Mordiford pass .acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of through to Hereford, wed. & sat. returning same days • Marked thus * receive letters direct *Rnssell Miss, Hampton dene *Gwynne David, farmer, Lower house from Hereford. Weare Edwin, Hampton house LucyChas. Hampden, artist,Eightlands .Anthony Charles, The Lawns Weare Mrs. Hampt,on house MedlicottJas. Meade, farmr.Court farm *Baskerville Misses, Netherwood COMMERCIAL. Thomas Arthur, general smith & shoe- Corbett Rev. Lionel M.A. Rectory Bailey Elzbh. (Mrs.), farmer, Lower ho ing smith & agricultural implement Crampton William Norman, The Oaks Bellamy Joseph, farmer, Whitehall repairer *Elcox Joshua,• Tupley house Davidson Robert. wheelwright Watts Richard, farmer Gibbons William Davis James, farmer, Studes Wheatstone Chas. Bunch of Carrots P.B Lucy Charles Hampden, Eightlands Ellis John Pearce, farmer, The Field Wigley David, sieve & basket ma.Post off .HAMPTON CHARLES is a hamlet of the parish of Richard Prescott-Decie esq. J.P., D.L. of Bockelton Court, Bockelton, Worcestershire, 3 miles north of the Leominster is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is .and Bromyard road, 8 east from Leomimter, 7 from Ten- clayey; subsoil, stony j the chief crops are corn, hops and bury station on the Worcester and Hereford section, and apples. The area is 470 acres j rateable value, £486 ; the "7 north-west from Bromyard terminal station, on a branch population in 1891 was 81. .of the Great Western railway, in the Northern division of . the county Broxash hundred Bromyard union county Letters receIved through Tenbury. The nearest money order ~ourt district and petty sessi~nal division. Th~re is no & tel~graph o~ce is at Bredenbury. The nearest post ~hurch here j the inhabitants attend the parish ohurch at office IS at Hadfield .Bockelton, which is three-quarters of a mile distant. The children of this place attend the school at Bockelton Payne Richard Pratt John, farmer, White house Symonds Edward, farmer & hop COMMERCIAL. Rogers SI. (Mrs.),cowkpr. Hollowy.com grower, The Birches .AbbottThomas, brick maker, The Stone Saer Marian (Mrs.), farmer & hop Wilson John, farmer, The Heath Moss Thomas, farmer & hop grower, grower, Manor farm Wood Edwin, grocer Bull's house Tyler Albert, mason .HARDWICK was, with Broad Meadow, Middlewood broke College, Oxford. There are two manors, of which .and Westbrook, formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1853 the trustees of the late Tomkyns Dew, of Whitney Court, from the parish of Clifford. Hardwick is 2~ miles north- and Hugh Phillips esq. of Westbrook, are lords. The prin -east from Hay, with a station at Westbrook on the Golden cipallandowners are the Rev. Slade Baker-Stallard-Penoyre, Valley railway, Ii miles east, in the Northern division of the the Moor, Herefordshire; the trustees of the late Tomkyns ~ounty, Hay union and county court district, Brewardine Dew esq. Benjamin Haigh Allen esq. of the Priory, Cllf petty sessional division, Weobley rural deanery (first divi- ford, and Hugh Phillips esq. of Westbrook, Hay. The soil .sion), and Hereford archdeaconry and diocese. Holy Trinity is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay and sandstone. The ~hurch, erected in 1849 by the late Rev. W. Penoyre, Mrs. chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, oats, swedes and fruit. Penoyre and Mrs. Napleton-Penoyre, is a building of stone The population in 1891 was 329. in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, na"e, south porch Parish Clerk, William Lewis. and a western turret containing 2 bells: all the windows Letters per foot post through Hay (Railway Sub-Office), .are stained. The register dates from the year 1853. The which is the nearest money order &telegraph office, arrive living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £220, with house, in at 10 a.m. Letters are collected by the letter carrier the gift of the Rev. S. Baker-Stallard-Penoyre, and held Railway Station, Westbrook, John F. Palin, station master since 1885 by the Rev. John Arthur Jones M.A. of Pem- The children of this place attend the school at Clifford HARDWICK. Williams Jeremiah, farmer, Pen-y-Ian Hamer Harriett Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Edwards Mrs. Hardwick green Williams Richard, farmer U~per C~s~leton Jones Rev. John Arthur M.A. (vicar) MIDDLEWOOD Jenkms "':illla:m, farmer, Newton • Jones BenJamm, farmer, Burnt house COMMERCIAL. Griffith Rev. William (vicar of Llan- LeightonGeo. farmer, Westbrook court Daniels George, beer retailer & shopkpr ddewifach,Radnorsh.),Middlewood ha Phillips Hugh, farmer, Westbrook Gore William, farmer, Harewood COMMERCIAL. Phillips William, farmer, Croft Lewis Thomas. farmer, Pen-y-Ian Bayliss Gilbert, farmer, Cydcwm Powell David, farmer, Paddock Meredith Thomas, farmer, New house Beavan Thomas, farmer, Cydcwm Pritchard George, shopkeepr.&shoe ma. Price Arthur, farmer, Maerdy Davies Josiah, farmer Rogers Betsy (Mrs.), farmer, CydcWDl Price Richard, farmer, Hawkswood Davies Thomas, farmer, The Rest Rogers Rees, farmer, Cydcwm Pugh Thos. farmr. Upper ho.Broadmdw Evans Ruce, miller (water), Clock mill Snead William, farmer SheenThos.farmer,White ho.Urchinfield Francis Thomas, farmer, Low.Castleton Watkins George, Castlefield inn WilliamsJasJarmer,Low.Broadmeadow Hobby Edward, farmer, LittleCastleton Watkins John, carpenter HAREWOOD (in Domesday, "Harewde) is a parish and Gloucester section of the Great Western railway, 5 west village between the main road from Ross to Hereford, which north-west from Ross, and. 9 south-east from Hereford, in bounds the parish on the west, and the river Wye, 3~ miles the Southern division of the county, hundred of Worme south-west from Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross and low, Ross union and county court district and Harewood.