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The ParishThe parish of Turnastone lies in southwestern Herefordshire not too far from both borders with Breconshire & Monmouthshire. Turnastone is located about 11 miles west of the city of Hereford and sits of the B4348 road which connects Hay on Wye with Wormelow Tump. Turnastone sits on the western side of the valley of the River Dore, also known as the "Golden Valley". There is very little to modern day Turnastone, no village as such, merely a scatter of farms and cottages on the edge of the Dore's floodplain. The economy of Turnastone would have been almost totally involved in pastoral, mainly dairy cattle, farming, at the time of this transcript; today there is much more arable hereabouts due to the use of heavy machinery on the clay-rich soils. The Dore drains the parish southwards, joining in turn the Monnow south of Pontrilas and then the Wye at Monmouth to eventually reach the Bristol Channel through the port of Chepstow. Turnastone is sited at around 110 metres above the sea in deeply rolling border countryside, local heights rise steeply to reach almost 330 metres within 2 or 3 miles. Herefordshire is a county of many small parishes but even so Turnastone was one of the smaller, covering just 550 acres it would have supported a population of fewer than 100 parishioners. In Domesday times Turnastone was recorded within the manor of Elnodestune, held by Robert de Lacy, it was a very modest place even then offering just 2 ploughs. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 14th April 1761 - 17th December 1812 | Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre - Reference - AW35/1 | Plain, unruled book, a continuation of the extant composite register in contravention of Hardwicke's segregation & wording requirements | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 17th June 1813 - 1st January 1832 | Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre - Reference - AW35/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 1754 - 1818 | Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre | Bishop's Transcripts on loose-leaf folios | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Both registers are deficient in their coverage of their relevant periods, additional records have been located from the extant BTs albeit with the usual caveats as to quality |
Vowchurch
St Bartholomew
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Vowchurch
St Bartholomew
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Vowchurch
St Bartholomew
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St Margaret
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St Margaret
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St Margaret
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Vowchurch
St Bartholomew
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