HolmerExtract from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.Transcribed by Mel Lockie, © Copyright 2010 Lewis Topographical Dictionaries HOLMER, a parish in the hundred of GRIMSWORTH, county of HEREFORD, 2 miles (N.) from Hereford, containing, with the chapelry of Huntington, and the township of Shelwick, 524 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £6. 10. 8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. HUNTINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of HOLMER, hundred of GRIMSWORTH, county of HEREFORD, 2 miles (W.N.W.) from Hereford, containing 82 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy with the vicarage of Holmer, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Hereford. SHELWICK, a township in the parish of HOLMER, hundred of GRIMSWORTH, county of HEREFORD, 2 miles (N.E. by N.) from Hereford. The population is returned with the parish. |
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