BIRLEY, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"BIRLEY, a parish in the hundred of Stretford, in the county of Hereford, 4 miles to the S.W. of Leominster. Weobly is its post and union town. Part of the land consists of hop grounds. The living is a vicarage consolidated with that of King's Pyon, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Birley Court is the principal mansion."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]