Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TITLEY

TITLEY, a parish, with a village, in the district of Presteigne and county of Hereford; on the Leominster and Kington railway, 3 miles NE of Kington. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office designated Titley, Herefordshire. Acres, 1,876. Real property, £2,597. Pop., 373. Houses, 78. T. Court belonged to the Greenleys; and passed, in 1839, to Sir T. Hastings. Eywood belongs to the Harleys. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Tyrone abbey in France, stood in the parish; and was given, by Henry V., to Winchester college. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £231. Patron, Winchester College. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Titley AP/CP       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Titley

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