Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PUDDLESTONE

PUDDLESTONE, a parish in Leominster district, Hereford; adjacent to Worcestershire, 4½ miles E of Leominster r. station. It includes the quondam parish of While, and contains the township of Brockmanton. Post-town, Leominster. Acres, 1, 743. Real property, 2, 220. Pop., 349. Houses, 74. The property is much subdivided. The manor, with P. House, belongs to E. Chadwick, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £276.* Patron, E. Chadwick, Esq. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Pudlestone AP/CP       Leominster RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Pudlestone

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