Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MIDDLETON-ON-THE-HILL

MIDDLETON-ON-THE-HILL, a parish in Leominster district, Hereford; near the boundary with Salop, 3 miles SE of Woofferton-Junction r. station, and 5 NE by N of Leominster. Post town, Leominster. Acres, 2,921. Real property, £3,304; of which £23 are in quarries. Pop., 445. Houses, 79. The property is much subdivided. Moor Abbey and Withers are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Kimbolton, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower.


(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: Middleton on the Hill Ch/CP       Leominster RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Middleton on the Hill

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