Description
Birley, a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Lugg, adjacent to Watling Street, near Ford station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford (L. & N.W. and G.W. Joint) railway, 4 ENE of Weobley, and 5 SW of Leominster, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Weobley. Acreage, 1295; population, 172. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of King's-Pyon, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1874. It consists of a chancel, with chapel, nave, and tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
