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| Name | Huntington (near Hereford) |
| Alt names | Hantinetune | source: Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 258 | | Huntinton | source: Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 258 | | Huntiton | source: Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 258 |
| Type | Chapelry, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.073°N 2.751°W |
| Located in | Herefordshire, England ( - 1932) |
| Also located in | Hereford and Worcester, England (1974 - 1998) | | Herefordshire, England (1998 - ) |
| See also | Grimsworth Hundred, Herefordshire, England | hundred of which the parish was a part | | Holmer, Herefordshire, England | parish in which it was an chapelry | | Hereford, Herefordshire, England | municipal borough of which it was part | | Hereford, Herefordshire, England | civil parish into which it was absorbed in 1932 |
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Huntington was originally a chapelry within the parish of Holmer, just to the north of the City of Hereford. It became a civil parish in 1866 and in 1884 was moved from Holmer parish into the Municipal Borough of Hereford. In 1932 the various civil parishes within Hereford, including Huntington (which covered the northwest corner), were merged into one civil parish.
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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Huntington (near Hereford) from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "HUNTINGTON, a township chapelry in Holmer parish, Herefordshire; on an affluent of the river Wye, 2 ½ miles NW of Hereford [railway] station. Post town: Hereford. Acres: 600. Population: 154. Houses: 29. The manor belongs to the Bishop of Hereford. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Holmer, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is modern."
Research Tips
- Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.
Online sources which may also be helpful:
- GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
- A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
- The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
- A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
- Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
- Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
- FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.
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