Ashperton, Herefordshire Family History Guide
Ashperton is a chapelry of Stretton Grandison Ancient Parish in Herefordshire.
Parish church: St. Bartholomew
Parish registers begin: 1538
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Parishes adjacent to Ashperton
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ASHPERTON, a parish in Ledbury district, Hereford; on the Worcester and Hereford railway, near the river Frome, 5 miles NW of Ledbury. It has a station on the railway; and its Post Town is Ledbury. Acres, 1,741. Real property, £3,199. Pop., 534. Houses, 105. The property is divided among a few. The living is a p. curacy annexed to the vicarage of Stretton-Grandison, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Ashperton, 7 miles N.W. Ledbury. P. 604
Source: Leonard's Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
Directories
Ashperton Kelly’s Herefordshire and Shropshire Directory 1941
Ashperton is a village and parish, on the road from Ledbury to Leominster, bounded on the north-west by the river Frome, with a station 1 mile distant on the Hereford and Worcester section of the Great Western railway, 6 miles north-west from Ledbury, in the Leominster division of the county, hundred of Radlow, rural district, county court district, petty sessional division and rural deanery of Ledbury, archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Bartholomew is an ancient cruciform building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells: the east window and two others in the chancel are stained: the church was restored in 1840 and in 1934: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1537. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Stretton Grandison, joint net yearly value £580, in the gift of Mrs. Hopton, and held since 1934 by the Rev. Clement Stewart Garbett, who resides at Stretton Grandison. The charities amount to £27 yearly. On the village green is a Celtic cross, bearing at the foot the names of the men of Ashperton, Canon Frome, Stretton Grandison and Eggleton who fell in the Great War, 1914-18; the cross was unveiled on 2nd October, 1921, by Lt.-Gen. Sir William Pitcairn Campbell K.C.B. A village hall was erected in 1924. Mrs. Hopton is lady of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is stiff clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are hops, wheat, beans and fruit. The area is 1,693 acres of land and inland water; population in 1931 was 290.
Letters through Ledbury. Canon Frome is the nearest M. O. & T. office
Police Station.
Railway Station (G. W.)
Private Residents.
(For T N’s see general list of Private Residents at end of book)
Hopkins Reginald James, Canon Frome Estate office
Lloyd Mrs. M., The Wharf house
Spencer William Hy. Blacklands villa
Commercial.
Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over.
Ashwin Rd. bailiff to F. Cliff esq. Lower Town
Baldwin Fredk. farmer & hop grower, Lower Town
Bevan John, farmer
Box Bush P.H. (Andrew Laurie)
* Bradstock Percy E. farmer & hop grower; breeder of pedigree Hereford cattle, Free town (letters through Tarrington, Hereford). TN Tarrington 238
Caffelle Fredk. saddler
Cowell Kate Eliz. (Mrs.), farmer & hop grower, Tuston farm. Trumpet 72
Cox Sydney, smallholder, Woodend
* Davies Herbert, farmr. Wassington
Davies Wm. farmer, Poppinger
Deem Hy. Cottage farmer, Hackers green
Holtham Mary (Mrs.), smallholder
Lanceley Beatrice (Miss), shopkpr
Meates John & Sons Limited, coal merchants, Railway station
Powell Alice (Mrs.), cottage farmer, Spring gro. Woodend
Powell Harold S. farmer & hop grower, Moorend. Trumpet 80
* Rimell Wm. Jn. Farmer & hop grower. Pridewood. Trumpet 57
South Wales Coal Co. (Edwin Morgan, agt.), Railway station
Tuck Harold Powell, baker. Trumpet 49
Watkins Muriel (Mrs.), baker. Trumpet 46
Source: Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire & Shropshire 1941, published by Kelly’s Directories Ltd 1941. Reproduced with the kind permission of the publishers Kelly’s Directories Ltd and Reed Business Information
Ashperton Kellys Herefordshire Directory 1863
Ashperton, 6 miles north-west from Ledbury, on the Hereford and Worcester railway, is a parish, in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, rural deanery of South Frome, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric. The church of St. Bartholomew Is an old building of stone, having a porch and square castellated tower containing 4 bells. The date of the earliest register is 1537. The living Is a chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Stretton Grandison; joint annual value £600, in the gilt of the Rev. John Hopton, M.A., of Canon Frome Court, and held by the Rev. John Buckle, M.A., St. Mary's Hall, Oxon. There is a National mixed school for 80 children. The population in 1861 was 534; acreage 1,715. The Rev. John Hopton, M.A. is chief landowner. It is in Ledbury county court district.
Parish Clerk, John Chamberlain.
Asbperton.
Buckle Rev. John, M.A. Parsonage
Gregg Sidney, esq
Able John, farmer. Vicarage farm
Burgwin George, beer retlr. & shopkpr
Cale Jeremiah, coal, timber & cider merchant, & farmer
Cale William, spade tree maker
Chamberlain John, shopkpr & parish clk
Dutson Joseph, wheelwright
Dutson Thomas, farmer & hop grower, Verzons
Dutson William, carpenter
Fenn Thomas, tailor, Woodsend
Fincher Thomas, shopkeeper
Howell Edward, butcher
Howells Caroline (Miss), shopkeeper
Humphreys William, smith
Johnson Joseph, carpenter
Lane Robert, farmer, Tuston's farm
Palmer John, farmer, Woodsend
Philpotts Thomas, farmer, Hausnet
Pitt Stephen, farmer, Wassington
Pudge James, farmer, Moorend
Simmonds Edward, shoemaker
Taylor Thomas, farmer, Roaks
Taylor Thomas, wheelwright
Treherne Henry, farmer, Lower town
Woodyatt Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer, Lower town
National Mixed School, Charles Humphrey, master; Miss Elizabeth Bevan, mistress.
Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and the City of Bristol, Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1863.
Ashperton Cassey Directory of Herefordshire 1858
Ashperton, 6 miles north-west from Ledbury, on the Hereford and Gloucester canal, is a parish in Radlow Hundred, Ledbury Union, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric. The living is attached to Stretton Grandison, of which John Graves is vicar. The church is an old building of stone, having a porch and square castellated tower containing 4 bells. There is a new school lately erected, of plain but handsome exterior and very commodious within, for 80 children. Ashperton is generally considered as a chapelry to Stretton Grandison mother church. Population, in 1851, 517; acreage, 1,715.
Letters through Ledbury, which is the nearest money order office.
Miscellaneous
Buckley Rev. John
Bayne Wm., registrar of births and deaths for Yarkhill district
Brazier Ann, beer retailer
Caldwell Peter, farm bailiff to the Rev. John Hopton, M.A., Mainstone court
Cale Jeremiah, agent to the Hereford and Gloucester Canal Co.
Chamberlain John, shopkeeper and parish clerk
Dutson Joseph, wheelwright
Dutson William, builder and carpenter
Fenn Thomas, tailor, Woodsend
Gillier Thos., solicitor
Howell Edward, butcher
Howell Elizabeth, shopkeeper
Humphriss Wm., smith
Johnson Joseph, carpenter
Simmonds Edward, shoemaker
Taylor Thomas, wheelwright
Thomas Miss, Lower Town
Farmers
Able John, Vicarage farm
Dutzon Thomas, (& hop grower) Verzons
Fincher Jane, Piccadilly
Lane Robert, Tuston’s farm
Palmer John, Woodsend
Philpotts Thomas, Hausnet
Pitt Stephen, Wassington
Pudge James, Moorend
Taylor Thomas, Roaks
Woodyatt Mrs., Lower Town
Source: Edward Cassey & Co.: History, Topography, and Directory of Herefordshire. Printed by William Bailey, 107, Fishergate 1858.
Ashperton Through Time
Administration and Boundary Changes
Administration
- County: Herefordshire
- Civil Registration District: Ledbury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Hereford (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Hereford
- Rural Deanery: Frome
- Poor Law Union: Ledbury
- Hundred: Radlow
- Province: Canterbury