Ford, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"FORD, (or Fordsbridge), a chapelry in the hundred of Wolphy, county Hereford, 2 miles S.E. of Leominster, its post town, and 10 N. of Hereford. It is situated on the river Lug, across which is a neat bridge. The Shrewsbury and Hereford railway has a station here' The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £53. The church is a small plain structure built on the site of the former one. J. Arkwright, Esq., is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]