Kimbolton Herefordshire Family History Guide

Kimbolton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Herefordshire.

Other places in the parish include: Hammish.

Parish church: St. James

Parish registers begin: 1565

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Eye
• Leysters
• Middleton on the Hill
• Pudleston
• Leominster

Kimbolton 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.

Kimbolton Herefordshire Baptisms 1565-1875

Marriage and Banns Records

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

Kimbolton Herefordshire Marriages 1565-1853

Kimbolton, St James Herefordshire Marriages 1565-1837

Death and Burial Records

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

Kimbolton Herefordshire Burials 1604-1900

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KIMBOLTON, a village and a parish in Leominster district, Hereford. The village stands on an eminence, 2½ miles NE of Leominster r. station. The parish comprises 4,061 acres. Post town, Leominster. Real property, £5, 258. Pop., 723. Houses, 151. The property is subdivided. About 160 acres are under hops. Traces exist of a Roman camp. The living is a p. curacy, united with the p. curacy of Middleton-on-the-Hill, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £132. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is old and cruciform; has a tower and spire; and was repaired in 1853. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Kimbolton, co. Hereford.
P. T. Leominster (137) 3 m. NE b E. Pop. 634.

A parish in the hundred of Wolphy; living, a curacy subordinate to the vicarage of Eye, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford; certified value 4l. 6s. 8d.; ann. val. P. R. 90l.; church ded. to St. James; patron, the Bishop of Hereford

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton. The Irish and Welsh articles by G. N. Wright; Vol. II; London; Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand; 1833.

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1831

KIMBOLTON, a parish in the hundred of Wolphy, county of HEREFORD, 3 miles (N.E. by E.) from Leominster, containing 634 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. James.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Historical Maps

Ludlow, Tenbury and District 1897: One Inch Sheet 181 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile) This One Inch to the Mile map covers the area on the Shropshire - Herefordshire boundary, stretching from Leintwardine eastward to Tenbury Wells, and from Bromfield southward to the outskirts of Leominster. Woofferton Junction is in the centre of the map and there is included a detailed map of this on the reverse, also including part of Brimfield. View Map Details*

Administration

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