Leintwardine Herefordshire & Shropshire Family History Guide

Leintwardine is an Ancient Parish partly in Herefordshire and partly in Shropshire.

Other places in the parish include: Adforton, Brakes, Grange, Heath with Jay, Kinton, Leintwardine, Letton, Marlow, Newton, Payton, Walford, and Whitton with Trippleton.

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin: 1547

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Wigmore
• Bucknell and Buckton
• Clungunford
• Leinthall Starkes
• Bromfield
• Downton
• Onibury
• Lingen
• Brampton Bryan
• Burrington

Parish History

Leintwardine

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND 1831

Leintwardine, a parish in the hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, comprising the townships of Adforton, Brakes, Grange, Heath with Jay, Kinton, Leintwardine, Letton, Marlow, Newton, Payton, Walford, and Whitton with Trippleton, and containing 1277 inhabitants, of which number, 346 are in the township of Leintwardine, 9 miles (W. by S.) from Ludlow. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the kings books at £7. 15. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. D. Winslow. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a large structure, once famous for a profusion of stained glass, of which the windows still display some beautiful fragments, representing crowns, lions, fleurs de lis, the arms of Mortimer, &c. Leintwardine is situated near the confluence of the Teme and the Clun, and from the quantity of fine fish, particularly graylings, with which these rivers abound, is much resorted to as a fishing-place. There are quarries of limestone in the parish : a fair is held on the 4th of April. The Rt. Hon. Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, founded, in the reign of Anne, a free school, and endowed it with land now producing an annual income of about £45. The ancient forest of Mocktree, which has been long disafforested, is in this parish.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Adforton

IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES CIRCA 1870

Adforton, a township, with Stanway, Paytoe [sic], and Grange, in the parish of Leintwardine, Hereford; 2 miles NW of Wigmore. Pop., 250. Houses, 57.

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

The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851

ADFORTON, a township in the parish of Leintwardine, union of Knighton, Herefordshire; 8½ miles west-south-west from Ludlow, and 2 north-west of Wigmore. In 1801, it contained, including the hamlets of Payton and Grange, a pop. of 214; in 1831, 218. Houses 47. Poor rates, in 1837, £123.

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

LEONARD’S GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES 1850

Adforton, in Lentwardine parish. P. 288.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

LEWIS TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND 1845

Adforton, with Stanway, Payton, and Grange, a township, in the parish of Leintwardine, union of Knighton, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, 8 ½ miles (W. S. W.) from Ludlow; containing 288 inhabitants, and comprising 1565 acres. The surface is boldly undulated, and the southern portion well wooded. On an eminence at the northern extremity are the remains of a Roman encampment called Brandon camp; and the road from Leintwardine to Wigmore passes through the village of Adforton. A school is endowed with £4 per annum.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

THE PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES 1840

Adforton, a township in the parish of Leintwardine, union of Knighton, Herefordshire; 8½ miles west-south-west from Ludlow, and 2 north-west of Wigmore. In 1801, it contained, including the hamlets of Payton and Grange, a pop. of 214; in 1831, 218. Houses 47. Poor rates, in 1837, £123.

Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1840.

Brakes

LEONARD’S GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES 1850

Brakes, included in Lentwardine parish.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND 1845

Brakes, a township, in the parish of Leintwardine, union of Ludlow, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford; containing 156 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1833

Brakes, co. Hereford.

P. T. Ludlow (142) 9 m. W b S. Pop. 125.

A township in the parish of Leintwarden and hundred of Wigmore.

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

Heath and Jay

THE PARLIAMENTARY GAZETTEER OF ENGLAND AND WALES 1851

Heath and Jay, a township in the parish of Leintwardine, hund, of Wigmore, county of Hereford; near the river Chun. Houses 5. Pop., in 1831, 51. Other returns with the parish.

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

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Heath, incl. in Lentwardine parish.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

Kinton

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Kinton, in Lentwardine parish. P. no return.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland 1833

Kinton, co. Hereford.

P. T. Ludlow (142) 9 m. W b S. Pop. 197.

A township in the parish of Leintwardine and hundred of Wigmore.

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

KINTON, a township in the parish of Leintwardine, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, containing 197 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Payton

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Payton, incl. in Lentwardine parish.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND 1831

Payton, a township in the parish of Leintwardine, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, containing, with the townships of Adforton and Grange, 212 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

Whitton

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Whitton, in Lentwardine par. P. 72.

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLAND 1831

Whitton, a joint township with Trippleton, in the parish of Leintwardine, hundred of Wigmore, county of Hereford, containing, with Trippleton, 79 inhabitants.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1831

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Bankrupts

Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.

Thomas Thos., Leintwardine, Herefordsh., miller & corn factor, Mar. 25, 1842.

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Administration

• County: Herefordshire
• Civil Registration District: Ludlow; Knighton
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Hereford
• Rural Deanery: Clun
• Poor Law Union: Ludlow
• Hundred: Wigmore
• Province: Canterbury