Burrington, Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcription by Marion B Wilkinson © 2001
BURRINGTON is a parish situated near the river Teme, and on a by-road leading
from Ludlow, via Aston, to Leintwardine. It is distant 5 miles S.W. of Ludlow,
13 N.W. of Leominster, and 26 N.N.W. of Hereford, in Wigmore hundred, petty
sessional division, and polling district, Ludlow union and county court
district. The population in 1861 was 231; in 1871, 200; inhabited houses, 39;
families or separate occupiers, 42; area of parish, 2,580 acres; annual
rateable value, £1,642. Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton Knight, Esq., of Downton
castle, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The parish is well
wooded; soil, heavy loam; subsoil, partly rock; produce, wheat, barley, fruit,
&c. Burrington is in the diocese of Hereford and archdeaconry and rural
deanery of Ludlow; living, a vicarage; value, £240, with residence; patron,
the Lord Chancellor; vicar, Rev. George James Corser, M.A., of Brasenose
College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1866. The church, dedicated to St.
George, is a handsome stone edifice. It was entirely rebuilt in 1864; the nave
by A. J. R. Boughton Knight, Esq., and the chancel by subscription; total
cost, £800. It contains several monuments to the Knight family, a fine old
font, register (earliest date 1640), and chest. There is a good school for
boys and girls, chiefly supported by subscription.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters arrive from Ludlow by rural messenger.
Leintwardine and Ludlow are the nearest money order and telegraph offices.
Post town, Ludlow.
Parish Church (St George's).- Rev. George James Corser, M.A., Vicar; Messrs.
George Mason and John Wellings, Churchwardens.
National School (boys and girls).- Miss Sarah Peevor, Mistress.
PRIVATE RESIDENT.
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Corser Rev. George James, M.A.(vicar of Burrington; chairman of guardians of Ludlow union), The Vicarage
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COMMERCIAL.
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Davies James, farmer, Monstray
Langslow Edwd., farmer, Boddington fm.
Mason George, farmer, Bringwood forge
Matthews J., farmer, The Willows
Monnington Frederick, miller, Hay mill
Morgan Richard, blacksmith
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Peevor Miss Sarah, schoolmistress
Price Mrs. John, farmer, New house
Richards Thomas, farmer
Wall Benjamin, shopkeeper
Wellings John, farmer, Mary knoll
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[Transcription by Marion Wilkinson in August 2001
from a copy of Littlebury's Directory of Herefordshire, 1876-7 in Hereford Central Library]
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