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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Eaton Bishop like this:
EATON-BISHOP, a parish in the district and county of Hereford; near the river Wye and the Hereford and Brecon railway, 4½ miles W by S of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford. Acres, 2, 229. Real property, £4, 268. Pop., 465. Houses, 94. The property is divided chiefly among four. ...
Eaton-Bishop House is the seat of the Phillips family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £444.* Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad. Goff's charities here and elsewhere have £450; and other charities here have £31.
Eaton Bishop is now part of HEREFORDSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how HEREFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Eaton Bishop itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Eaton Bishop in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1950
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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