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Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863
Transcription by Barbara Haner © 2004OCLE PYTCHARD.
OCLE PYTCHARD is a parish, distant 8 miles east from Hereford (its post town), 7 west from Bromyard, 5 south-east from Bodenham railway station, in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union and county court district, Frome deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric; it is situated on the Hereford and Bromyard turnpike road, the Hereford and Gloucester canal bounding the southern side of the parish. The church of St. Peter is an old stone building, having a square tower with 3 bells, and south porch; the interior consists of nave, chancel, aisle, font, with a window of painted quarry glass in the south side of the chancel. The register dates from 1781. The living is an endowed vicarage, the tithes being commuted at £191 16s. yearly, with residence and 6 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Thomas Hill, Esq., of Rudhall, near Ross; the Rev. Hopkins Hill, B.A., is the incumbent. There is a Free school for boys and girls, supported by voluntary subscriptions. The population in 1861 was 299; the area is 1,133 acres. The soil is clayey. James Leech Harrison, Esq., (lord of the manor), J. Morley, Esq., T. Postlethwaite, Esq., Rev. J. Glossop, and E.N. Mason, Esq., are the landowners. The chief crops are wheat, beans, hops, and apples. There are charities of £1 15s.yearly value.Parish Clerk, Thomas Adams.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
| Hill Rev Hopkins, B.A., Vicarage | Stephenson Major William Walter, Ocle court |
COMMERCIAL.
| Bailey Henry, blacksmith Bowen Henry, farmer, Upper Castleton Bufton Charles, bricklayer Brace Stephen, tailor, Burley gate Clarke William, farmer, Hillhampton Gittins John, wheelwright, Burley gate Hartland Frederick, shopkeeper Hill Thomas, grocer, Kymin wharf Hodges George, blacksmith, Burley gate Hodges James, shopkeeper | Mack Andrew, farmer, Lyvre's Ocle Moseley George, farmer, Moorhouse Munn John, farmer, Kymin Phillips John, farmer, Quickset Sherrat Alexander, farmer, Holdbury barn Skerrett John, farmer, Brandiland's end Taylor Saml., road surveyor, Whitehouse Vaughan Chas., farmer, Lower Castleton Wilson Robert, Burley Gate, Burley gt Wilson Thomas, farmer, Brick house |
Letters by foot post arrive from Hereford at 11 a.m.; dispatched thereto by 12 noon. The nearest money order office is at BromyardFree School, Mrs. Mary Bull, mistress
[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in December 2004
from a personal copy of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863]