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Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1905

Transcription by Richard Lane © 2003

HUMBER.

HUMBER, is a parish, with scattered population, about 1 mile south of the Leominster and Bromyard road, and watered by the Humber Brook, a feeder of the Lugg, 3½ miles east-south-east from Leominster, with a station at Steen's Bridge, 1 mile north-east of the church on the Leominster and Bromyard section of the Great Western Railway, in the northern division of the county, Wolphy hundred, Leominster Union, petty Sessional division and county court district, rural deanery of Leominster, archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. Under a Local Government Board Order of 1888, a detached part of this parish was transferred to Stoke Prior. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone; consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch, and western tower 45 feet high with shingled spire 36 feet in height, and containing 2 bells; In the east wall, above the communion table, is a curious old bracket, and the east window is stained: The nave has been reseated with open benches and the interesting Jacobean pulpit has been restored as a memorial to the Rev. Allen Cowburn, a former rector by his widow and relatives: some ancient tiles remain in the sacrarium, and there are several stained windows: The north transept was built in 1878 at the cost of the late Major E. Nicholas Heygate, R.E., D.L., J.P. of Docklow (d. 1896) The chancel was restored in 1876 and the remainder of the church in 1878, under the direction of Mr. T. H. Wyatt, architect, of London, the cost of the whole amounting to about £900; The tower and spire were restored in 1884 at a cost of £300, from plans by Mr. Francis Bacon, of Newbury, as a memorial to the Rev. Philip John Scudamore-Stanhope M.A., J.P. rector, who died 2 June, 1882, the tower being raised 12 feet to its probable original height: There are sittings for 130 persons. The register dates from the year 1585. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £159, with residence and 126 acres of glebe land, in the gift of John Hungerford Arkwright, esq., and held since 1897 by the Rev. Robert Lorimer Rome, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Rectory House was built in 1870. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel in this parish. Mrs. Heygate, of Docklow, who is Lady of the manor, and John Hungerford Arkwright, esq., of Hampton Court, Hope-under-Dinmore are the chief landowners. The soil is clay and red loam; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are corn, hops and apples. The area is 1,836 acres; rateable value, £1,782; and the population in 1901was 213 in the civil and 186 in the ecclesiastical parish.

   RISBURY is a hamlet within this parish, 1-mile south-east, and has remains of a British Camp.

   Parish Clerk.- William Lippett.

   Wall Letter Box, Steens Bridge Station, cleared at 5p.m. & wall letter box, Humber Rectory, cleared at5.20 p.m. on weeks days only. Letters through Leominster arrive about 8.15 a.m., Docklow is the nearest telegraph office & Stoke Prior is the nearest money order office.

   Wall Letter Box, Risbury Cross, cleared 11.45 a.m. week days only.

   Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with master's dwelling, in 1874, for 74 children; average attendance, 50; Henry Greenwood, master; Mrs. Greenwood, assistant mistress.

   Railway Station, Steens Bridge.- Charles John Howes, Station Master.

HUMBER
Edwards Ann (Mrs.), farmer, The Court Lippett William, parish clerk
Greenwood Henry, school master, School House Rome Rev. Robert Lorimer M.A., The Rectory
Howe Walter, coal dealer, Steens Bridge Skyrme John, farmer & hop grower, Lower Pridelton
Howes Charles John, Station master, Steens Bridge Watkins Edward, carpenter & wheelwright, Little Pridelton
Jackson George, farmer, Upper Pridelton  
RISBURY
Angeleri Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hill Patience (Miss.), shopkeeper
Bemand Richard, farmer & hop grower, Risbury Court Lawrence James, farmer, Turning Ways
Bemand Robert William, farmer & hop grower, Wood farm Lawrence William, farmer, New Madenhyde
Bowcott James, farmer, Butt Oak gate Lewis George W., farmer, Newhouse
Burgess Josiah, mason Mason Henry (Mrs.), farmer, Brickhouse
Compton William, miller, Risbury Mill Morris Richard, farmer, The Field
Diggory George, Hop Pole P.H., coach builder, carpenter & farmer Watkins William, blacksmith
Grosvenor William, farmer, The Poplands  

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1905 in Hereford Central Library]