Titley, Herefordshire

Description
Titley, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, 3 miles NE of Kington. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), and a station about a mile S of the village, on the Leominster and Kington branch of the G.W.R. Acreage, 1899; population, 355. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Titley Court is the ancient seat of the Greenly family. Eywood was formerly the seat of the Harleys, Earls of Oxford. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Tyrone Abbey in France, stood in the parish, and was given by Henry V. to Winchester College. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £141 with residence. Patrons, the Church Patronage Society. The church was rebuilt in 1868, and retains the tower of the previous edifice.

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