WILLEY is a township of the parish of Presteigne (Radnorshire), but
situated in the county of Hereford. It is distant from 2 to 5 miles
N.N.W. of Presteigne station on the Kington and Presteigne railway, and
about 4½ S.E. of Knighton station on the Central Wales railway. It is
in Wigmore hundred, petty sessional division, and polling district,
Presteigne union and county court district. The population in 1861 was
158; in 1871, 137; inhabited houses, 21; families or separate occupiers,
21; area of township, 2,104a. 0r. 36p.; annual rateable value, £1,440.
Sir Harford James Jones Brydges, Bart., and F. Bodenbam, Esq., are the
chief landowners. The soil is loamy, producing wheat, barley, oats, roots,
&c. The farms are widely scattered, and the scenery is most rural,
romantic, and pleasing; the prospects from the adjacent eminences are
incomparably fine, and interesting to every lover of landscape.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters arrive by messenger from Presteigne
about 11 a.m. Presteigne is the nearest money order and telegraph
office. Letters should be addressed - Willey, Presteigne, R.S.O.
Primitive Methodist Chapel.- Ministers various.