Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRETFORD

STRETFORD, a parish and a hundred in Hereford. The parish lies 4¾ miles SW of Leominster r. station, and is in Weobly district. Post town, Leominster. Acres, 424. Real property, £698. Pop., 50. Houses, 9. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £94. Patron, A. H. Wall, Esq.-The hundred contains 13 parishes, and 3 parts. Acres, 45,299. Pop., 9,079. Houses, 1,962.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stretford AP/CP       Stretford Hundred       Weobley RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Stretford

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