Holmer, Herefordshire

Description
Holmer, a village, a township, and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 2 miles N of Hereford, and has a post office under Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Hereford. Acreage of the township, 1371; population, 482. Holmer with the township of Shelwick are outside the municipal limits of Hereford, but there is a large portion of the parish within the city limits, which is called Holmer Within. Hnntington, a chapelry annexed to Holmer, is also in the city of Hereford. The acreage of the entire parish is 3519 acres; population, 2427. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Huntington annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, ^£279 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The parochial church is Early English, and has a detached tower. The church of Huntington is modern. One mile NW of Hereford is a stone cross, said to commemorate a plague which infested the neighbouring country in 1347.