Description
Byford, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, and the road from Hereford to Brecon, 3 miles S of Moorhampton station on the M.R., 6 S of Weobley, and 7 1/2 WNW of Hereford, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 942; population of the civil parish, 185. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Mansell Gamage, in the diocese of Hereford; net value of Byford, £168 with residence. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 310. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1883 ; it is a fine building of the Early English and Decorated periods, and consists of chancel, nave, south transept, south aisle, and an embattled tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
