ALMELEY is a parish and village situate on the Hereford and Aberystwith turnpike road, about 5 miles S.S.E. from Kington, 4½ W. from Weobley, 14 S.W. from Leominster, and 15 N.W. from Hereford. The Kington and Eardisley branch of the Great Western railway was opened for traffic in February 1875. The Almeley station on that line is about a quarter of a mile from the village. The Eardisley station on the Midland railway (Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch) is about 2½ miles S. Almeley is in Stretford and Wolphy hundreds, Weobley union and petty sessional division; Eardisley polling district, and Kington county court district. The population in 1861 was 637; in 1871, 675; inhabited houses, 139; families or separate occupiers, 154; area of parish (including the townships), 3,352a. 2r. 21p.; annual rateable value, £4,580. Mrs. Pease is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, red sandstone marl, with gravel in some parts; chief crops, wheat, barley, roots, and fruit. There are vestiges of a camp near the church, also a barrow. Almeley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a vicarage; value, £207 10s., with residence and 82 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; vicar, the Rev. William Pitcairn Alexander Campbell, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1865.

The church of St. Mary was restored in 1868 at a cost of £1,800. It is an ancient Gothic structure, with nave, aisles, miniature transepts, chancel, organ, vestry, porch, and tower containing five bells and a clock. The earliest register is dated 1595. Here is a district board school with an average attendance of 80 children. £670 have been borrowed from Government for building purposes. Newport House, a modern mansion, has been recently purchased by Mrs. Pease. Woonton is a hamlet about 1 mile from Almeley station on the Kington and Eardisley line, and 2 miles from Kinnersley station on the Midland railway from Hereford to Brecon. The Religious Society of Friends have a meeting house in this village. Hopley's Green is a township covering an area of 400 acres. It is in Wolphy hundred, and is distant about 1 mile N.N.E. of Almeley village. Logaston is a township, also in Wolphy hundred, with an area of about 200 acres. It is distant about 1 mile E. of Almeley. Wootton is a hamlet. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel erected in 1870.