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Extract from Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863
Transcription by Barbara Haner © 2004WOLFERLOW.
WOLFERLOW is a parish, 5 miles north from Bromyard, and 18 north-north-east from Hereford, in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union and county court district, Frome deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric. The river Frome rises in this parish. The church of St. Andrew is a small old building in the Norman style, with tower, and consists of nave, chancel, and font. The register dates from 1629. The living is a vicarage, value £220 yearly, with residence and 2 acres of glebe land, in the gift of John Wright, Esq.; the Rev. J. H. C. Wright, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, is the incumbent. The population in 1861 was 112; the acreage is 1,525. The soil is clayey. Edmund Higginson, Esq., is the principal landowner. The chief crops are wheat, beans, and peas. There are charities of 13s. yearly valueUPPER and LOWER UNDERLEY, The Park, Heath, Forty Acres, Upper House, Court House, and Powiswick are places here.
Parish Clerk, James Leary.
WOLFERLOW
PRIVATE RESIDENT.
Wright Rev. John Howard Cressy, M.A. Vicarage |
COMMERCIAL.
Baldwin William, farmer, Low. Underley Colebatch Edward, farmer, Up. Underley Cooper Susannah (Mrs.), farmer, The Park Cowles George, farmer, Upper house | Drew John, farmer, Forty acres Jones Edward, farmer, Powiswick King William, farmer, The Heath |
Letters through Tenbury. The nearest money order office is at Bromyard.
[Transcribed by Barbara E. Haner in February 2004
from a personal copy of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire, 1863]