Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EASTNOR

EASTNOR, a parish in Ledbury district, Hereford; under the Malvern hills, near the Worcester and Hereford railway, 1¼ mile E of Ledbury. It has a post office under Ledbury. Acres, 3, 186. Real property, £3, 664; of which £22 are in quarries. Pop., 478. Houses, 105. The property is not much divided. The parish gives the title of Viscount to Earl Somers. Eastnor Castle, the Earl's seat, is a splendid mansion, on the plan of ancient baronial castles. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value not reported.* Patron, Earl Somers. The church was recently rebuilt; and contains monuments of the Somers family.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Eastnor AP/CP       Ledbury RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Eastnor

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