Grendon Bishop, Herefordshire - Post Office Directory, 1863

Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863

GRENDON BISHOP.

GRENDON BISHOP'S is a parish, 8 miles east from Leominster, 4 west from Bromyard, and 14 from Hereford, in Bromyard electoral and petty session division, county court district and union, Broxash hundred, Frome rural deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric; it is situated on the turnpike road between Leominster and Bromyard. The church of St. John the Baptist is a stone structure, rebuilt in 1788, the old edifice having fallen down two years previously; it has a tower and 1 bell; porch, monuments, and font. The register dates from 1612. The living is a perpetual curacy, worth £80 yearly, in the gift of the vicar of Bromyard; and held by the Rev. Martin Henry Ricketts, M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The population in 1861 was 199; the acreage is 1,629. The Rev. G.M. Wood, F.O. Badham, Esq., Thomas Lee, Esq., and Evan Thomas Pateshall Esq., are chief landowners.

NEWBURY, Horsnett, Westington Court, Brockington, and Little Common are places here.

Parish Clerk, Thomas Tomkins.

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GRENDON BISHOP.

COMMERCIAL.

Letters through Bromyard, which is the nearest money order office

[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in November 2004
from a personal copy of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863]