Felton, Herefordshire - Post Office Directory, 1863

Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863

FELTON.

FELTON is a parish, 8 miles south-west from Bromyard (its post town), 7½ north-east from Hereford, 9½ from Leominster, and 12 from Ledbury, in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union and county court district, North Frome deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and diocese; it is about half a mile south of the turnpike road leading from Leominster to Ledbury. The church of St. Michael was entirely rebuilt in 1854, and is in the Decorated style of architecture; it is built of the excellent stone of the neighbourhood, with Bath stone dressings, and consists of a tower, nave, porch; chancel with vestry; and has 4 newly cast bells, a handsome font and pulpit of carved stone, sedilia, a stained western window, and two small painted windows in the south chancel wall, beautifully executed; the open seats, of stained pine, in the body of the church, and the roof are much admired; the nave and chancel are paved with encaustic tiles; the proportions and tracery of the chancel and tower arches, and of the cast windows, are exceedingly good; architect, Mr. T. Nicholson, of Hereford. The living is a vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, in the patronage of Thomas Hill Esq.; the Rev. Henry T. Hill, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is the incumbent, and rural dean of the deanery of North Frome. There is a mixed school for the parishes of Felton, Ullingswick, and Little Cowarne, supported by annual subscriptions and pence from the children, and there is a Sunday school held at the Vicarage. The parish contains several good farms, with good houses. The population in 1861 was 149; the acreage is 1,800. The soil is clayey. Thomas Hill, Esq., H. Maund, Esq., H. Pitt, Esq., and J.H. Arkwright, Esq., are chief landowners. The land is productive, yielding wheat, beans, hops, apples, and turnips.

Parish Clerk, John Jauncey.

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FELTON.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

COMMERCIAL.

Letters through Bromyard at 11.30a.m.; dispatched at 2.30p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bromyard

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