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Treville, Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2001
TREVILLE is a parish (for poor-law purposes) situated about 1 mile
from the main. road leading from Hereford to Abergavenny, and 1½ N.W.
of St. Devereux station on the West Midland section of the Great Western
railway. It is distant 7½ miles S.W. of Hereford; is in Wormelow hundred
(upper division), Dore union and petty sessional division, Ewyas
Harold polling district, and Hereford county court district. The population
in 1861 was 145; in 1871, 170; inhabited houses, 32; families or
separate occupiers, 33; area of parish, 1,540 acres; annual rateable
value, £1,200. The Rev. Archer Clive, of Whitfield, is lord of the manor
and principal landowner. Elijah Henry Dean, Esq., of Winnall hall,
Allensmore, has also some land in this parish. The soil is clay, on a red
sandstone formation; detached portions of limestone rock may be seen
cropping out. The chief products are wheat, barley, oats, and roots.
There are 522 acres under oak-woods. Whitfield is a handsome mansion,
pleasantly situated in an extensive and well-wooded park. It is the seat
of the Rev. Archer Clive, M.A., J.P., D.L., and Major Charles Meysey
Bolton Clive, J.P., D.L.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters are received through Hereford. The
nearest post office is at Wormbridge. Madley and Hereford are the nearest
money order offices. Hereford is the telegraph office and post town.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
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Clive Rev. Archer, M.A., J.P.,
(chancellor of the choir and prebendary of Pyon Parva in Hereford cathedral), Whitfield; and Athenæum club, London, S.W.
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Clive Major Charles Meysey Bolton, J.P., D.L., Whitfield
Oldaker Mr. Thomas, land steward for the Rev. Archer Clive, J.P., D.L., The Vallets
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COMMERCIAL.
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D.L. Allcroft John, head gamekeeper for the Rev. Archer Clive, J.P., Whitfield
Dean Elijah Henry, farmer & landowner; res., Winnall hall, Allensmore, Hereford
Dean Mrs. Jane Mary, Three Horseshoes Inn
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King Thomas, stonemason
Preece Archer, shopkeeper, Criseley
Wheatley William, head gardener for the Rev. Archer Clive, J.P., Whitfield
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OCR/Transcription by Rosemary Lockie in November 2001.
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