Description
Lugwardine, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Lugg, 1 1/2 mile SW of Withington station on the G.W.R., and 3 miles E by N of Hereford. There is a post and money order office under Hereford; telegraph office, Bartestree. The parish includes the hamlet of Hagley. Acreage, 2116; population, 735. Longworth, Lugwardine Court, New Court, Hagley Park, Hephill, and Wilcroft are chief residences. A three-arched bridge spans the Lugg. Encaustic tiles are made, and there are flour mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £250 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is Early English and Decorated, and was restored and a handsome reredos added in 1894.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
