Place:Egleton, Herefordshire, England

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NameEgleton
TypeParish
Located inHerefordshire, England
Also located inHereford and Worcester, England     (1974 - 1998)
Herefordshire, England     (1998 - )
See alsoRadlow Hundred, Herefordshire, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
Bishops Frome, Herefordshire, Englandparish in which it was a township until 1866

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

"EGGLETON, a township in Bishops-Frome parish, Herefordshire; near the river Frome, 9¼ miles ENE of Hereford. Acres: 630. Real property: £984. Population: 164. Houses: 31."

Egleton became a civil parish in 1866. (Source:A Vision of Britain through Time