Place:Lugwardine, Herefordshire, England

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Lugwardine is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, to the east of Hereford. It lies on the northeast bank of the River Lugg, which gives the village its name. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 1,721.

The village lies on the A438 road; Lugwardine Bridge takes this road across the Lugg.

The parish contains the village of Lugwardine as well as the following hamlets:

• Hagley - situated on the A438 to the east of Lugwardine, now part of the village of Bartestree.
• Tidnor - a very small place, situated to the southeast of Lugwardine; there are several orchards at Tidnor Wood.
• Longworth - situated to the southeast of Lugwardine, slightly further than Tidnor; Longworth Hall is a notable listed building. Lugwardine, Hagley and Bartestree effectively form a continuous linear settlement along the A438 road.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Lugwardine from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"LUGWARDINE, a parish, with a village, in the [registration] district and county of Hereford[shire]; on the river Long, 1¼ mile SE of Wellington [railway] station, and 3 E by N of Hereford. Post town: Hereford. Acres: 2,097. Real property, £6,064. Population in 1851: 670; in 1861: 748. Houses: 151. The property is subdivided. Longworth, Lugwardine Court, New Court, Hagley Park, Hephill, and Wilcroft are chief residences. A three-arched bridge spans the Lug. Hops are grown, and encaustic tiles are made. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £440. Patrons: the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is ancient but good; and has a massive tower, with some curious sculptures. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, a national school, and charities, £26."

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.