Docklow, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1867

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1867

[Photocopy starts here] Cooper, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Stoke Prior parsonage. The population in 1851 was 199, and in 1861 the number of inhabited houses was 37, and the population 185.
   Postal Regulations. - Letters arrive by foot post from Leominster at 9 a.m. The letter-box is cleared at 3.40 p.m. Leominster is the nearest money-order office, and its post town.
   Parish Church (St. Bartholomew). - Rev. Henry Cooper, B.A., Incumbent. John Mason, Parish Clerk.

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PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Heygate Capt. Ed. Nicholas, R.E., Buckland

Murray Major David, Oaklands

COMMERCIAL.

Bishop Edward, farmer, Lower Docklow Bray Thomas, shoemaker Britten Edward H., farmer, Uphampton Britten Mrs. Susannah, Uphampton Hagger Wade, farmer, Clark's Croft Holloway Joseph, farmer, Hampton Wafer Holyoake Mrs, Mary, boarding and day school for young gentlemen (Mr. Upton, manager) Docklow academy

Mason John, wheelwright, carpenter, and parish clerk MATTHEWS JAMES, grocer and baker Parr John, farmer, West End Steward Charles, farmer, Lower Buckland Steward William, farmer, Oakland Wood Mrs. Elizabeth, King's Head Inn, blacksmith and implement maker

Note: Unfortunately this extract is incomplete, as my photocopy did not cover all the pages of the Directory devoted to this parish. Sorry.

[Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie in July 2000
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1867 in Hereford Central Library]