In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Aymestrey like this:
AYMESTREY, a township and a parish in Leominster district, Hereford. The township lies on the river Lug, 3½ miles NNW of Kingsland r. station, and 7 NW of Leominster. The village in it is pleasant; the neighbouring banks of the Lug are singularly rich and bean tiful; and a circumjacent limestone formation is famous for fossils picked up either in quarries or on the public road. ...
Real property, £1,893. The parish includes also the townships of Leinthall-Earls, Nether-Lye, Over-Lye, Yatton, Shirley, and Covenhope or Conhope; and its Post Town is Kingsland, Herefordshire. Acres, 6,349. Real property, with Elton and Leinthall-Starkes, £8,324. Pop., 855. Houses, 178. The property is much sub divided. Traces of Roman and British camps are near the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £249.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good. The p. curacy of Leinthall-Earls is a separate charge. Two endowed schools, an almshouse, and other charities, have aggregately an income of £50.
Aymestrey through time
Aymestrey is now part of Herefordshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Herefordshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Aymestrey itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Aymestrey in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2421
Date accessed: 20th April 2024
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