Ullingswick, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1922

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1922

ULLINGSWICK.

ULLINGSWICK is a parish in a delightfully pleasant vale, about 2 miles and a half west on the road from Bromyard to Hereford, 6 miles south-west from Bromyard station on the Worcester and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, 6 miles from Denmore station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (Great Western and London and North Western joint) railway and 9 north-east-by-north from Hereford, in the Leominster division of the county. Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Bromyard and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. From some of the eminences in this parish very extensive and beautiful views are obtained. The church (name not known) is a building of stone, in the Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing 5 bells; there is a stained window in the chancel to the late Mrs. Sarah Garbett, d. March 20th 1868, and others on the north side of the chancel; the south chancel windows are in memory of John Garbett, d. Aug. 22nd 1860; John Garbett Ware, d. Feb. 22nd, 1860, Elizabeth Ware, d. Sept. 4th 1842, and Edith Sarah Ware, d. Feb.24th. 1856: the pulpit is of oak: there is a chancel screen of oak, erected as a memorial to the Rev. John Middleton Ware LL.B. rector here 1854-1902: on the south side of the nave is a tablet to John Hill, gent. d. Feb. 23rd 1599: there is also an oak tablet bearing the names of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: the church was restored in 1863, at a cost of £600, and was reroofed in 1912 at a cost of about £170. The register dates from the year 1561. A lych gate was erected in 1921 at the west entrance to the churchyard, as a War Memorial. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Little Cowarne annexed, joint net yearly value £225, including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Birmingham and held since 1922 by the Rev. Richard Henry Lambley M.A. of Oxford University. Christopher Henry Ware esq. who is the lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late Col. Parker are the principal landowners. The soil is a stiff clay; subsoil rock and clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, peas, hops and apples. Cider is made here. The area is 1,665 acres; rateable value, £1,801; population in 1911, 251.

   Parish Clerk, George Weaver
   Assistant Overseer, Benjamin Jones, Pencombe
Post Office.-Mrs. Griffiths, sub-postmistress.
   Letters through Worcester. Burley Gate, 2½ miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office

Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1873 for this & the adjoining parishes of Little Cowarne & Felton; it will hold 64 children; Mrs. Freeman, mistress.

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ULLINGSWICK.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Cowpland William Francis Robert, Ullingswick court Lambley Rev. Richard Henry M.A. (rector), The Rectory

COMMERCIAL.

Bayliss Jas., Wheelwright, Little Hope Bayliss John, wheelwright, Harp Cottage Bayliss John. jun,. farmer Wilden Cowpland William Francis Robert, farmer, Ullingswick court Davies Sidney, farmer, Crozen Davies, William, farmer, Loudy hall Evans Nancy (Miss), farmer, Steppes Hamer A. James, farmer, Lower court Lewis Arthur, farmer, The Bank Mann George, farmer Townsend Pitt, William, farmer, Fair view

Skerrett, Harold, farmer, The Gobbets Smith Charles, farmer, The Linnett Thomas John Arth., farmer, Criftage Tolley Benjamin, farm bailiff to Geo. F. Hinton esq. Pool house Veall Wright, farm manager to Messrs. Earnshaw & Place, Lower Hope Whiting Robert, farmer, Sheepcote Williams William, blacksmith Wood Richard, farmer, Stone house Worwood George Ernest, beer retailer

[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in November 2003
from a personal copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1922]