Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MADLEY

MADLEY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district and county of Hereford. The village stands 1½ mile S of the river Wye, 4¼ NW of Tram-Inn r. station, and 5¾ W by S of Hereford; dates from ancient times; was once a market-town; is now a seat of petty sessions; and has a post office under Hereford.—The parish comprises 5,360 acres. Real property, £8,108. Pop. in 1851,927; in 1861,970. Houses, 198. A castle formerly stood at the village. A ferry for horses and carriages is on the Wye to Bsdge-Sollers and Byford. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Tiberton, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £608. * Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is partly Norman, but chiefly decorated English; has a polygonal apse, over a fine octagonal crypt, with central shaft and good groining; has, in the E end of a small chapel, a large fivolight window; has elsewhere windows mostly of twolights, in mixtures of early English and decorated English; has, at the W end, a beautiful embattled tower, surmonnted by a high turret, locally called "Jacob's Chair; ''and contains decorated sedilia, remains of stalls with desks and miserere seats, a remarkable ancient font, and several handsome monuments. A broken cross is near the church, and another is near the village. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £27. -The sub-district contains also seven other parishesAcres, 19,790. Pop., 3,088. Houses, 657


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Madley CP/AP       Madley SubD       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Madley

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