Ashperton, Herefordshire Genealogy

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Parish History
ASHPERTON (St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Ledbury, hundred of Radlow, county of Hereford, 5¼ miles (N. W. by W.) from Ledbury; containing 604 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 1741 acres; and is intersected by the road from Leominster to Ledbury, and the new canal from Ledbury to Hereford. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Stretton-Grandsome: the tithes have been commuted for £350. 15.; and there is a quarter of an acre of glebe, on which a school-house for boys has been built. The parliamentary army was stationed at a place in the parish, still called Cromwell's Walls.

From: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 88-90. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50764 Date accessed: 29 August 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
See Herefordshire Census

Poor Law Unions
Ledbury Poor Law Union, Herefordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Hereford Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Herefordshire Probate Jurisdictions, Parishes A

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Web sites
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