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Harewood, Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2004
HAREWOOD (anciently Harewde) is a small parish situated between the
two main roads from Ross to Hereford, and within a mile of the river
Wye. It is distant 5½ miles N.W. of Ross, 9 S. of Hereford, and 3½
S.W. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of
the Great Western railway. It is in Wormelow hundred (upper division),
Ross union and county court district, Much Birch polling district,
Monmouth tax surveyor's district, and is the head of a petty sessional division.
The justices for Harewood End division meet at the Police station every
alternate Tuesday. The population in 1861 was 101; in 1871, 113;
inhabited houses, 21; families or separate occupiers, 21; area of parish,
590 acres; annual rateable value, £1,227. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq.,
is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil,
clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c.
This place
was anciently a Preceptory of the Knights Templars; afterwards of the
Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, from whose
possession it descended, with all ecclesiastical rights and privileges. The
church is adjacent to, and forms the chapel of, Harewood mansion. It
was rebuilt in 1863-64 by Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., and is a beautiful
fabric in the Early English style. Stained glass for three lancet
windows was presented by Mrs. Hardman Phillips in 1869. The living
is a donative peculiar in the gift of C. Wren Hoskyns, Esq.; chaplain,
Rev. Henry Lloyd Oswell, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was
appointed in 1872, and is also rector of Llandinabo. There is no school
in the parish. Harewood House is the ancient residence of the Hoskyns
family, and now the seat of Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., who was
called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1838, and was M.P. for the city
of Hereford from 1870 to 1873, and is a J.P. and D.L. for Herefordshire
and Warwickshire.
The mansion is a plain structure, but was much
improved and partly rebuilt by its late owner (Sir Hungerford Hoskyns,
Bart.) The park is well wooded, and contains some very fine timber. This
estate was formerly a royal demesne, belonging to the Dukes of Kent. It
composes part of the ancient forest of Harewood, where, it is supposed, Earl
Ethelwold was assassinated by King Edgar, for his deceitful conduct with
respect to the fair Elfrida. Ethelwold had a castle here, which is the
scene of the dramatic poem "Elfrida", by Mason. A picturesque mound,
near the wood of Elvastone (Elfrida's town), known as "Petty Haute".
still marks the spot of the local tradition. The village of Harewood End
is partly in the parish of Pencoyd.
MAGISTRATES ACTING FOR THE HAREWOOD END DIVISION.- (The justices
meet at the Police station every alternate Tuesday.) Colonel
Thomas Powell Symonds, Pengethley; Rev. William Poole, M.A., Hentland
Vicarage; Rev. Walter Baskerville Mynors, B.A., Llanwarne Rectory;
Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., Harewood House; Edmund Jones, Esq., M.D.,
Mount Craig; Sir Edward Cludde Cockburn, Bart., Pennoxtone
Court, King's Caple; Rev. Daniel Capper; , John Jones, Esq., Langstone
Court; James Rankin, Esq., Bryngwyn; Major George Griffin Tyler,
Callow Hill, Welsh Newton, Monmouth. Clerk to the Justices, Henry
Minett, Esq., Ross. The following Parishes and Places are comprised in
the Petty Sessional Division:-Ballingham, Birch (Little), Birch (Much),
Bolstone, Dewchurch (Little), Dewchurch (Much), Dewsall, Ganarew,
Garway, Harewood, Hentland, King's Caple, Llandinabo, Llangarren,
Llanwarne, Llanrothall, Marstow, Orcop, Pencoyd, Peterstow, St.
Weonard's, Sellack, Tretire with Michaelchurch, Welsh Newton, and
Whitchurch.
COMMISSIONERS OF TAXES FOR HAREWOOD END DIVISION.- Rev. William Poole;
Colonel Thomas Powell Symonds; Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq.;
Rev. Walter Baskerville Mynors; Sir Edward Cludde Cockburn,
Bart.; Samuel Ralph Lockey, Esq. Clerk to the Commissioners,
Henry Minett, Esq., Ross; Surveyor, J.N. Moore, Esq., Monmouth.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- William Scrivens, Sub-Postmaster, Harewood
end. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross at 7.40 a.m.; despatched
thereto at 5.55 p.m. [The mail-cart from Hereford to Ross passes
through at 4.5 p.m., returning the following morning at 5 o'clock.] Money
orders are granted and paid and post office savings bank business
transacted at this office. Ross is the nearest telegraph office and post town.
Harewood Church.- Rev. Henry Lloyd Oswell, M.A., Chaplain.
Police Station, Harewood end.- Mr. George Smith (of Ross), Superintendent
for Ross and Harewood End Divisions; Thomas Price, Resident Sergeant
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
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Hoskyns Chandos Wren, Esq., B.A.(Oxon), J.P. and D.L. (for Herefordshire. and Warwickshire), Harewood ho.; and Oxford and. Cambridge club, London, S.W.
Oswell Rev. Henry Lloyd, M.A. (rector of Llandinabo and chaplain of Harewood), Belle Vue (in Pencoyd parish)
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COMMERCIAL.
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Collins Saml., Harewood End Inn, & frmr.
Cooke Richard, farmer, Elvastone
Moseley Miss M.E., shopkeeper, Harewood end (in Pencoyd parish)
Moxley George, farmer, Lasket farm
Paine Isaac Albert, farmer, Woodland farm
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Price Thos., police sergt., Harewood end
Pritchard James, farmer, The Grange
Scrivens William, assistant overseer for Harewood, Pencoyd, and Michaelchurch-with-Tretire, and sub-postmaster, Harewood end (in Pencoyd parish)
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OCR/Transcription by Rosemary Lockie in April 2004.
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