Hentland Herefordshire Family History Guide

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Hentland or Hentland with Hoarwithy is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Herefordshire, created in 1849 from Hentland chapelry and Little Dewchurch chapelry both in Lugwardine Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Tressick, Treadow, Treaddow, Little Dewchurch, Kynastone, Hoarwithy, and Altbach.

Ecclesiastical Parishes created from Hentland parish include:

Alternative names: Hentland with Hoarwithy

Parish church: St. Dubricius

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1558
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Separate registers exist for Little Dewchurch

  • Parish registers:  1730
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Hentland Parish Registers

Search online indexed transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials. Taken from the original parish registers, these entries may include names, dates, family relationships, residences, occupations and other details noted by the minister, with earlier records naturally offering fewer details.

Baptism Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of baptisms.

Hentland Herefordshire Baptisms 1558-1882

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of marriages.

Hentland Herefordshire Marriages 1560-1898

Hentland St Dubricius Herefordshire Marriages 1560-1837

Death and Burial Records

These records include indexed transcriptions of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burials.

Hentland Herefordshire Burials 1813-1839

Parish History

Hentland The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

Hentland, a parish in Ross district, Hereford; on the river Wye, 3½ miles WSW of Fawley r. station, and 4 NW of Ross. It contains the village of Hoarwithy, and the hamlets of Altbach, Kynastone, Treaddow, and Tressick. Post town, Ross. Acres, 2, 905. Real property, £5, 500. Pop., 647. Houses, 141. The property is much subdivided. Kynastone House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Hoarwithy, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £310. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is late decorated English, with an embattled tower; and is in a decent state of repair. There are a chapel of ease at Hoarwithy, and a Wesleyan chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Hentland The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

Hentland, a parish in the lower division of Wormelow hund., union of Ross, county of Hereford; 4 miles west-north-west of Ross, west of the river Wye. Living, a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Lugwardine. Here are 2 small daily schools. Charities, in 1837, £1 5s. per annum. Poor rates, in 1838, £308 6s. Acres 2,550. Houses 121. A. P. £4,187. Pop., in 1801, 443; in 1831, 618.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851.

Administration

  • County: Herefordshire
  • Civil Registration District: Ross
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Archenfield
  • Poor Law Union: Ross
  • Hundred: Wormelow
  • Province: Canterbury