Aylton, Herefordshire Genealogy

England Herefordshire Herefordshire Parishes



Parish History
Aylton is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire see Aylton Wikipedia for a history of the estate and village settlement.

The small undedicated parish church of this Ancient Parish stands on a platform adjacent to Aylton Court Farm House about 3 miles west of Ledbury.

The estate was extensive and likewise the parish. There has been settlement here since Saxon times and the manorial estate is documented. The earliest written form of the name is Aileuetona in 1138. Later variations are Alhamstone (1278), Aylmeton (1291), Aylston (1341), Ailyneton (1351), Aylistone (1368), and Aylton de la Bath (1619). This latter name, combined with the benefice listing of Aylton as a "chapel with cure" in 1351, suggests that historically the pond adjacent to the church may have been thought to have restorative powers. Aylton chapel was also listed as "vetus villa" in the charters of Lanthony Prima in Wales.

The oast at Court Farm has recently been restored and the mediaeval barn has also been restored in recent years.

The church has two bells one possibly 12th century the other circa 1639.

The Aylton parish church has been designated as a grade II* listed building British listed building

See also Herefordshire Churches and Pixley and District Website

AYLTON, A Parish in the hundred of RADLOW, county of HEREFORD.

LEWIS, Samuel A. ''Taken from FHL Book Call # 942 E5L 1831 pg. 76''

AYLTON, a parish, in the union of Ledbury, hundred of Radlow, county of Hereford, 4¼ miles (W.) from Ledbury; containing 69 inhabitants. It consists of 812 acres of land, undulated, with a full proportion of wood, and a soil of average fertility. The living is a discharged perpetual curacy, endowed with one-third of the tithes, and valued in the king's books at £3. 3. 4.; net income, £149; patron, the Earl of Oxford; impropriators of the remainder of the tithes, the Portionists of Ledbury church.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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The Diocesan Record Office for Herefordshire has deposited Parish registers and Bishop's transcripts

Herefordshire Archive Service Herefordshire Record Office Harold Street Hereford HR1 2QX

Office Tel No: +44 (0)1432 260750 Email: archives@herefordshire.gov.uk

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See also Herefordshire Church Records

Census records
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The 1851 census of England and Wales attempted to identify religious places of worship in addition to the household survey census returns.

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Prior to the 1911 census the household schedule was destroyed and only the enumerator's schedule survives.

The 1911 census of England and Wales was taken on the night of Sunday 2 April 1911 and in addition to households and institutions such as prisons and workhouses, canal boats merchant ships and naval vessels it attempted to include homeless persons. The schedule was completed by an individual and for the first time both this record and the enumerator's schedule were preserved. Two forms of boycott of the census by women are possible due to frustration at government failure to grant women the universal right to vote in parliamentary and local elections. The schedule either records a protest by failure to complete the form in respect of the women in the household or women are absent due to organisation of groups of women staying away from home for the whole night. Research estimates that several thousand women are not found by census search.Find my Past 1911 census

Poor Law Unions
Ledbury Poor Law Union, Herefordshire

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Herefordshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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