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Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire

Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863

Transcription by Barbara Haner © 2004

STOKE 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

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


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