Description
Woolhope, a parish in Herefordshire, 5 miles E by N of holme Lacy station on the G.W.R., and 8 ESE of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford; money order office, Fownhope; telegraph office, How Caple. It includes the townships of Buckenhill and Putley. Acreage, 4414; population of the civil parish, 647; of the ecclesiastical, 675. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. Wessington Court is the cliief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is Early English, and was restored in 1883.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
