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Holme Lacy, Herefordshire - Trade Directory, 1862

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Extract from Trade Directory of Herefordshire, 1862

Transcription by Richard Lane © 2002

HOLME LACY.

HOLME LACY is a parish and village, 4 miles from Hereford, and 8 from Ross, pleasantly situated on the banks of the River Wye. The church of St. Andrew has a substantial square tower with eight bells. The living is a vicarage annexed to the chapelry of Boulstone, and valued at £543 yearly, with good residence, and 12 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Sir Edwin F. S. Stanhope, Bart. There is a free school for boys and girls; also a Sunday School for boys only. Sir Edwin F. S. Stanhope Bart., is Lord of the Manor, whose noble and princely mansion is pleasantly situated in this parish. Population 322.

Clergy
Stanhope, Rev. W. P. Woodgates Rev. James R.
Trades and Professions
Bonnor John, farmer, The Bower Powell George, farmer, Cannon Dale
Bray Thomas, shopkeeper Prosser John, farmer, Billingsley
Cooper John, farmer, Middle Bogmarsh Sexty Robert, farmer, Hollington Court
Downing John, farmer, Lower Bogmarsh Ward Dianna, sub-Postmistress
Froggatt Henry, farmer, The Folly Wells Samuel, gardener
Gardner William, farmer, The Tump Williams John, stonemason
Magness Matthew, blacksmith & farmer Yates Miss Mary, Mistress of Free School

   Letters arrive from Hereford by messenger at 9.30 a.m., and are despatched at 4 p.m.

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in December 2002
from an original edition of this 1862 Trade Directory in Hereford Central Library]