Huntington (near Hereford), Herefordshire Family History Guide

Status: Chapelry

Alternative names: Huntington near Holmer, Huntington by Holmer

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1718; see also Holmer
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1660

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• Stretton Sugwas
• Breinton
• Holmer
• Hereford St Nicholas
• Burghill

Historical Descriptions

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HUNTINGTON, a township chapelry in Holmer parish, Herefordshire; on an affluent of the river Wye, 2 ½ miles NW of Hereford r. station. Post town, Hereford. Acres, 600. Pop., 154. Houses, 29. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Hereford. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Holmer, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is modern.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch - Birth Marriage & Death Census Migration & Naturalization Military Probate & Court

Church Records

Bishop's transcripts for Huntington, near Hereford, 1718-1857

Parish registers for Huntington, near Hereford, 1930-1952

Cemeteries

Herefordshire, Huntington (Hereford), monumental inscriptions

Census

Census returns for Huntington, 1841-1891

Land and Property

Belmont Abbey papers, 18th and 19th century

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

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