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Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863
Transcription by Barbara Haner © 2004KIMBOLTON.
KIMBOLTON is a large parish and township, with the townships of STOCKTON and HAMNISH CLIFFORD, containing a scattered population, 2½ miles north-east from Leominster station, 15 north from Hereford, and 159½ from London, in Leominster electoral and petty sessional division, union, county court district and rural deanery, Wolphy hundred, and Hereford archdeaconry, and Hereford bishopric; it is situated on rising ground, on the turnpike road from Leominster to Tenbury. The church of St. Andrew is an old stone building, in the Early English style, and was repaired about 1843; it has a low square tower with 4 bells and shingle spire; nave, chancel, Lady chapel, and font and, from its situation on an elevated site, forms a picturesque object from several adjacent points. The living is a perpetual curacy with that of Middleton-on-the-hill, joint annual worth £132 is the gift of the Bishop of Hereford; the Rev. Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, is the incumbent. The register dates from 1565. There is a chapel for Primitive Methodists, and a Roman Camp in the parish, 1 mile and a half east of the church. The population in 1861 was 723; the acreage is 4,310. The soil is clayed. Lord Rodney and George Henry Bengough, Esq., are chief landownersSTOCKTON is a township in the parish, in which the church is situated.
HAMNISH CLIFFORD is another township in the parish, situated on the southern side, 1 mile and a half from the parish church.Parish Clerk, William Owens.
KIMBOLTON.
COMMERCIAL.
Bowdler Benjamin, farmer, The Ride Bradley James, wheelwright Callow Edward, farmer, Pateshall Chadney Henry, farmer, The Walls Evans Wm. farmer, Kimbolton court Gregory John, shoemaker Griffiths George, farmer, Endoll Mapp William, farmer, Shop farm | Moore Catherine (Mrs.), farmer, The Hundred Owens William, carpenter & parish clerk Owens Wm. wheelwright, Churchfield Pitt Thomas, farmer, New House farm Pitt Wm. farmer, Lower Kimbolton Roberts Wm. carpenter, The Hundred Rogers William, farmer, Lea farm Yates Harriet (Mrs.) farmer, The Hundred |
STOCKTON.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Burgess Josiah, Cam | Hutchinson Rev. Thomas, M.A. [incumbent], Grantsfield |
COMMERCIAL.
Beaumont Richd. farmer, Rowley fields Benbow John, farmer, Mennels Bevan William, farmer, Forbury Carwardine John (exors. of), farmer & cattle dealer, Stockton bury Cox John, farmer, Crantsfield Davies Thomas, farmer, Lower Bach Griffiths Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Brock ho Hall Thomas, farmer, Grantsfield Harris Thomas, farmer, Stockton field Hill George, farmer, Brook farm Hirons William, blacksmith Jay John, farmer, Hawthorn | Jay Samuel, farmer, Stockton field Jay William, farmer, Upper Bach Langford Wm. shoemaker, Lever hill Lawrence John, blacksmith Moyle Samuel, farmer, Stanley Phillips James, stonemason Phillips William Stockton Cross & shopkeeper Pulling Joseph, carpenter Ravenhill William, farmer, Gorstey hill Smith John, stonemason Taylor John, stonemason & shopkeeper Wall Thomas, shoemaker, Docklow cot Yeomans William, farmer, Gorstey hill |
HAMNISH CLIFFORD.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Stephenson Charles Benjamin, esq. J.P. Hennor house | Woodhouse James Geo. esq Little Hennor |
COMMERCIAL.
Hill Ann (Miss), spirit dealer & retailer, Brock hall Jones Benjamin, farmer Lane Francis, farmer Minton Thomas, farmer, Holden farm | Pateshall Wm. farmer, Little Hennor Pember John, farmer Phillips Thomas, carpenter & wheelwright, Holly brook Vale William, farmer |
POST OFFICE LETTER BOX, Stockton Cross. - Letters received by foot post through Leominster, which is the nearest money order officePoor Rate Collector, Thomas Parkes, Stoke Prior
[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in March 2004
from a personal copy of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863]