Bishops Wood Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Family History Guide

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Bishops Wood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, Ceated in 1845 from Walford Ancient Parish (Herefordshire) and Ruardean Ecclesiastical Parish.

Alternative names: Bishopswood

Parish church:

Parish registers begin: 1841

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Gazetteer of the British Isles 1887

Bishopswood.- eccl. dist., Walford (Herefordshire) and Ruardean (Gloucestershire) pars., on river Wye, 3¼ miles SW. of Ross, pop. 405. The estate of Bishopswood is 3½ miles S. of Ross, Herefordshire.

Source: Gazetteer of the British Isles, Statistical and Topographical. Editor: John Bartholomew. Publisher, A. and C. Black. Published: 1887

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BISHOPSWOOD, a chapelry in Walford and Ruardean parishes, Hereford; on the river Wye, 3¼ miles SSW of Ross r. station. It was constituted in 1845; and its Post Town is Walford under Ross.

Acres and property, not reported. Pop., 403. Houses, 100. The property is much subdivided; and there are iron-works. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £35. Patron, J. Partridge, Esq. The church is good.

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

Administration

  • County: Herefordshire; Gloucestershire
  • Civil Registration District: Ross
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory); Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Hereford
  • Rural Deanery: Ross
  • Poor Law Union: Ross
  • Hundred: Greytree; St Briavels
  • Province: Canterbury