Much Birch, Herefordshire

Description
Birch, Much, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 3 1/2 miles SE of Tram-Inn station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 S of Hereford, with a post and money order office under Tram-Inn (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Hoarwithy. Acreage, 1303; population, 470. Birch House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £76 with residence. The church is modern.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5