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Yatton, Herefordshire
Extract from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7
with Private and Commercial Residents
Transcribed by Rosemary Lockie, © Copyright 2004
YATTON is a township and chapelry in the parish of Much Marcle,
being distant 2½ miles S.W. from the mother church, 5 N.N.E. of Ross,
7½ S.W. of Ledbury, and 10½ S.E. of Hereford; is in Greytree hundred,
Ross union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and
Fownhope polling district. The population in 1861 was 225; in 1871, 213;
inhabited houses, 47; families or separate occupiers, 50; area of township,
1,409 acres; annual rateable value, £2,026. George Clive, Esq,,
M.P., and William Gibson Ward, Esq., are the chief landowners. The
soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, roots, &c. Yatton is in the
diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross; living,
a chapelry; value, £288, with 5 acres of glebe, annexed to the vicarage
of Much Marcle; vicar, Rev. Allen William Chatfield, M.A., of Trinity
College, Cambridge. The Rev. William Becher, is the curate. The chapel
of ease was erected in 1842 at a cost of £560. It is a cruciform structure
of white stone, capable of seating about 200 persons. A new infant school
was provided here in 1874 at a cost of about £100, by the purchase of a
building intended as a dissenting chapel. Perrystone is chiefly in Foy
parish. Perrystone Towers is the residence of William Gibson Ward, Esq.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters are received through Ross. Much
Marcle is the nearest money order office. Ross is the nearest telegraph
office and post town.
Yatton Church (Chapel of Ease to Much Marcle).- Rev. Allen William
Chatfield, M.A., Vicar; Rev. William Becher, Curate; Mr. Charles
Cotton, Churchwarden; Richard Bosley, Clerk.
Infant School.- Miss Sarah Watkins, Mistress.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
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Clive George, Esq., M.P., J.P., and D.L., Perrystone
Field Mr. J., Yatton lodge
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Ward Wm. G., Esq., Perrystone towers
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COMMERCIAL.
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Benskin James, farmer, Gamage farm
Berrow Mrs. Diana, shopkeeper and cottage farmer, Lower house
Carter George, farmer, Barrel hill
Cotton Charles, farmer, Dean's place
Gibbons Samuel, shopkeeper
Jones James, farmer, Woodreding farm
Mizen Henry, farmer, Welch court
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Price Charles, farmer, Lower house
Price John, Higford Arms Inn, & frmr.
Teague Thomas, carpenter & shopkeeper
Watkins John, blacksmith, Perrystone hill
Watkins Miss Sarah, schoolmistress
Weaver Richard, farmer, Upper house
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OCR/Transcription by Rosemary Lockie in March 2004.
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