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Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863
Transcription by Barbara Haner © 2004STOKE LACY.
STOKE LACY is a parish, in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union and county court district, Frome deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and diocese, 4 miles south-south-west from Bromyard, and 12 north-north-east from Ledbury. The church of St. Peter and St. Paul is small building of stone, with porch, square tower and spire and 4 bells; the interior is plain having one aisle. The register dates from 1567. The living is a rectory, value £300 per annum, with residence and 19 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Job Douglas Esq., and held by the Rev. Robert Cooper Douglas, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The population in 1861 was 348; the area is 2,005a. 3r. 3p. The soil is strong clay; the subsoil limestone. The Right Hon. Earl Somers is lord of the manor; and Major Kempson and Misses Luxmore are the chief landowners.Parish Clerk, William Thomas.
STOKE LACY
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
| Douglas Job, esq. Douglas Rev. Robert Cooper M.A., Rectory | Skelly Mrs. |
COMMERCIAL.
| Beavan James, farmer, Tuthill Beavan William, farmer, Crick's Green Blissett William, farmer, Mintridge Brown Richard, miller Busk Thomas, Plough Davies James, farmer, Whitehouse Davies Jeremiah, stonemason & bricklayr Davis Henry, farmer, Huddle mill Dent Thomas, farmer, Stoke court Derry Philip, farmer, Upper house Hayling Richard, farmer, Crookhorne Knowles Wm. farmer, Halfway house | Lee George, farmer, Brick house Parker James, farmer, Newton Pearson John, farmer, The Farm Powell Geo. farmer, Upper Wood end Robinson James, farmer, Stoke hill Smith Joseph, farmer, Upper Sough Taylor Philip Williams, farmer, Merryfield Thomas William, assistant overseer Wagstaff Thomas, farmer, sough Wall Henry, shoemaker Went John, farmer, Roxpole Woakes Harcourt Lawrence, farmer, Grove |
Letters through Bromyard, which is the nearest money order office.National School, William Thomas, master
[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in May 2004
from a personal copy of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863]