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Grafton, Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2012
GRAFTON is a township situated on the road leading from Hereford to
Ross and Monmouth, nearly 3 miles S. of the city of Hereford; is in the
civil parish of St. Martin, Hereford, but without the liberties of the city;
in Webtree hundred, Hereford union, county court district, polling district,
and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 93; in
1871, 81; inhabited houses, 15; families or separate occupiers, 15; area
of township, 424 acres; annual rateable value, £1,383. Francis Richard
Wegg-Prosser, Esq., of Belmont, is lord of the manor and principal landed
proprietor. Captain Robert Henry De Winton and Mrs. Smith are also
landowners here. The soil is stiff loam and clay, producing wheat,
barley, beans, &c. There is a brickyard in the township. Grafton is in
the diocese; archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford. By Order in
Council of the 19th of May, and duly registered in the registry of the
diocese of Hereford 7th June 1866, the townships of Grafton and Lower
Bullinghope were separated from the parish of St. Martin, Hereford, and
annexed, for ecclesiastical purposes only, to the parish of Upper
Bullinghope. Graftonbury, the property and residence of Captain Robert Henry
De Winton, J.P., D.L., is pleasantly situated here.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford,
which is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. The
wall letter-box is cleared at 6 p.m. on week-days only.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
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Britten William, Esq., Grafton park
De Winton Captain Robert Henry, J.P., D.L., Graftonbury
Evans Miss, Graftonbury lodge
Goldsworthy Major-General Joshua Webb, J.P. (for city of Hereford), Grafton park
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COMMERCIAL.
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Blissett Thomas, farmer, Grafton Court farm
Cook William, freeholder
Dance Thomas, farmer, King's Pit and New house farms
Fletcher William, farmer, The Leys; and 9 Eign street, Hereford
Griffiths Francis, farmer, Grafton villa
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Richardson Henry, carpenter, New house
Robinson Christopher, cottage farmer and beer retailer, The Brick-kiln
Vale Thomas, brick and tile maker
Vale Thomas, jun., shoemaker, Portway
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OCR/Transcription by Rosemary Lockie in October 2012.
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