Library

A list of library books available for members to borrow is given below. This list is regularly updated.

Books can be borrowed at meetings of the Society – first Monday of the month.

Author (Surname first), Title, Published by/date

A

Abergavenny Local History Society, A Town remembers. Memories of Wartime Abergavenny. 1939 – 1945, Abergavenny Local History Society, 2002

Andere, Mary. Arthurian Links with Herefordshire. Logaston Press, 1996

Annett, DM, Saints in Herefordshire, A Study of Dedications, DM Annett & Logaston Press, 1999

Anon , Michaelchurch Escley School 1938 – 1942 ‘From the great fire to the evacuees’, 1989

B

Baker-Gabb, R, The Families of Baker of Bailey Baker and Baker Gabb Abergavenny. A Memoir, Photocopy of 1903 publication

Baker-Gabb, R, Hills and Vales of the Black Mountains District, Lappridge Publications, 1993

Baldwin, Francis, The Old Churches of our Land, SPCK, 1916

Barber, Chris, In Search of Owain Glyndwr, Blorenge Books, 1998

Barber, Chris, Eastern Valley. The Story of Torfaen, Blorenge Books, 1999

Barber, Chris, Exploring Kilvert Country, Blorenge Books, 2003

Bayliss, Brenda. Grancha’s War. ND

BBC Hereford & Worcester, The Century Speaks. Herefordshire Voices, BBC Hereford & Worcester, 1999

Beale, Catherine, Champagne and Shambles. The Arkwrights and the Downfall of the Landed Aristocracy, Sutton Ltd, 2006

Blatchford, Robert ed, Family & Local History Handbook 10, 2007?

Bonser, KJ, The Drovers, Macmillan, 1970

Botzum, Richard & Catherine/ Reeves, NC, The 1675 Thomas Blount Manuscript History of Herefordshire,

Boucher,A; et al, Death in the Close – A Medieval Mystery, Headland, 2015

Bradney, Sir Joseph Alfred, A History of Monmouthshire, Vol1 Part 2a. The Hundred of Abergavenny (part 1) Facsimile of 1906 ed), Academy Books, 1991

Brown, RJ. Timber Framed Buildings of England. Robert Hale, London, 1986.

Bulmer, EF, Early Days of Cider Making (facsimile of 1937 booklet), Museum of Cider, Hereford, (1937)

Burke, John, An Illustrated History of England, Collins, 1974

Burton, Anthony, Remains of a Revolution, Andre Deutsch,1974

Butler, Denis, 1066 The Story of a Year, Anthony Blond. 1996

C

Cassady, Richard, F, The Norman Achievement, Guild Publishing, 1987

Chamberlain, Russell, The English Country Town (National Trust), Book Club Associates London, 1984

Chatwin, Bruce, On The Black Hill, Jonathon Cape, 1982

Clarke, Kate, Who Killed Simon Dale & other murder mysteries, Logaston Press, 1993

Coates, SD & Tucker, DFG, Water-mills of the Middle Wye valley, Monmouth District Museum Service, 1983

Coleman, Delphine, Orcop. The Story of a Herefordshire Village from Pre-history to Present Times, Self Publishing Association Ltd,1992

Coplestone-Crow, Bruce, Herefordshire Place-Names, B.A.R Series 214, 1989

Cordell, Alexander, This Proud & Savage Land , Blorenge Books, 2000

Cox, JC & Ford, CB, The Parish Churches of England, Batsford, 1946-7

Crow, Alan, Bridges on the River Wye, Lapridge Publications, 1995

D

Davies, Dewi. Welsh Place Names and their Meanings. Cambrian News, Aberystwyth.

Davies, Kathryn, Artisan Art. Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550-1650, Logaston Press, 2008

Devereux, P. and Thomson, I. The Ley Hunter’s Companion. Thames and Hudson, 1979.

Dunabin, JE, The Hereford Bus, HJ Publications 1986

Duncumb, John, Collections towards the History & Antiquities of the County of Hereford (1804-1915), Vol II Broxash Hundred, Ewyas Lacey and Part of Greytree Hundred , Merton Priory Press, 1997

Durant, Horatia, The Somerset Sequence (Beaufort), Newman Neame 1951

E

Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the outbreak of the English Civil War. Hardinge Simpole, 2002.

Eardisland Oral History Group, Eardisland An oral History, Eardisland Oral History Group, 1995

Edmonds, John, The History of Rotherwas Munitions Factory, Hereford, Logaston Press, 2004

Engeles, Hilary, (ed.) Golden Valley Voices – Memories of old days in rural Herefordshire. Hilary Engel, 2014.

Eisel, John & Bennett, Frank, The Pubs of Hay on Wye and the Golden Valley, Logaston Press 2005

Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place Names, Oxford University Press, 1951

Evans, CJO, Monmouthshire Its History and Topography, William Lewis printers, (1953?)

Evans, R Meurig, Children in the Mines 1840-42, National Museum of Wales, 1979

Evans, RM, Children in the Iron Industry 1840-42, Nat’l Museum of Wales, 1978

Ewyas Harold & District WEA Research Group, Ewyas Harold Common, West Midlands WEA, no date

Ewyas Harold & District WEA Research Group, Field and Furrow, West Midlands WEA, no date

Ewyas Harold and District WEA Research Group, Yesterday in Ewyas Harold, West Midlands WEA, no date

Ewyas Harold Local History Study Group, Local Camera Collection of Photographs 1870/1985, Ewyas Harold , Ewyas Harold Local History Study Group 1985

F

Faraday, MA (ed), Herefordshire Taxes in the Reign of Henry VIII, Woolhope Naturalists ‘ Field Club, 2005

Faulkner, Christine, Hops and Hop-pickers, Faulkner Publications, no date

Flower-Smith, Priscilla, The Hidden History of Ewyas Lacy in Herefordshire, Logaston Press, 2013

Fisher, JL, Medieval Farming Glossary, Essex Rec’d Office 1997

Foster, I.L. and Alcock, L. Culture and Environment – Essays in Honour of Sir Cyril Fox. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963.

Foxton, Derek. Around Hereford. The History Press, 2006.

G

Gelling, Margaret & Cole, Ann, The Landscape of Place Names, Shaun Tyas, 2000

Godwin, Fay & Toulson, Shirley, The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Whittet House, 1994

Golden Valley Study Group. The Man who Drowned the Meadows – Roland Vaughan, 1558-1627. Logaston Press, 2016.

Goodwin, Nicola. Tales from Herefordshire’s Graves and Burials. Logaston Press, 2005.

Grant, F & Patton, J (eds), The Walled Gardens Of Herefordshire, Hereford & Worcs Gardens Trust + Logaston Press, 2009

Graves, R, Golden Valley Days, 1986

Green, Lt Col Howard, Regional Military Histories – The Central Midlands, Osprey 1974

Green, David. (ed.) A Herefordshire Christmas. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1993.

H

Haggard, Andrew. Dialect and Local Usages of Herefordshire. Grower Books, 1972.

Harding, Paul T & Wall, Tom (eds), Moccas: an English Deer Park, English Nature, 1999

Harris, Robert, Canals & their Architecture, Godfrey Cave 1980

Hart, Judy, Ewyas Harold Common (Community Commons Project), Herefordshire Nature Trust, 2010

Harvey, Nigel, Fields, Hedges & Ditches, Shire Publications, no date

Heins, Nigel, The Flashback Collection, Hereford Times, no date

Hereford Cricket Club, 150 years of Hereford Cricket 1836 – 1986, Hereford Cricket Club, 1986?

Herefordshire Family History Soc, CD Rom: Clodock Burials/Inscriptions, n/d

Hillaby, Joe, Ledbury A medieval Borough, Logaston Press, 1997

Hodges, Geoffrey. Owain Glyn Dwr & the War of Independence in the Wels Borders, Logaston Press, 1995

Hopkinson, Charles, Herefordshire Under Arms – a military history of the county, Bromyard Local History Society 1985

Hopkinson, Jean, Little Cowarne. A Herefordshire Village, Bromyard & District Local History Soc, 1983

Hoskins, WG, English Landscapes. How to read the man-made scenery of England, BBC, 1974

Hoskins, WG, The Making of the English Landscape, Book Club Associates, 1997

Hoskins, WG, Local History in England. Longmans, 1959.

Howard-Jones, Jill, Secret Hereford, SB Publications, 1993

Howells, John, The History of the Old Baptist Church at Olchon with the Life & Martyrdom of Sir John Oldcastle. (Photocopy of 1886 book), (1886)

Hughes, Pat & Hurley, Heather, The Story of Ross, Logaston Press, 1999

Hurley, Heather, The Old Roads of South Herefordshire. Trackway to Turnpike, The Pound House, 1992

I & J

Jenkins, AE, Titterstone Clee Hills. Everyday Life, Industrial History and Dialect, AE Jenkins, 1988

Jenkins, J Geraint, Traditional Country Craftsmen, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978

Johnson, Andrew & Punter, Stephen, Aspects of Herefordshire, Logaston Press, 1987

Johnson, A and Punter, S. Walks and More. Logaston Press, 1990.

Jones, Gwyn, Prehistoric Abergavenny (Pamphlet), No date

Jones, Gwyn , Roman Abergavenny (Pamphlet), No date

Jones, Peter Morgan, Hills of Fire & Iron, Old Bakehouse Publications, 1992

K

Kay, E&K. and Richards, M. Offa’s Dyke Path South. National Trail Guide. Aurum Press/The Countryside Agency, 2000.

Keen, Richard, Coalface, National Museum of Wales, 1982

Kilvert, ed Plomer, William, Kilvert’s Diary 1870-79. Selection, Penguin, 1977

L

Laws, Bill Ed, A Slap of the Hand. The History of Hereford Market, Logaston press & Herefordshire Lore, 2007

Le Quesne, AL, After Kilvert, Oxford University Press, 1978

Leather, Ella Mary, The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire collected from oral& printed sources, Lapridge Publications, 1992

Leeds, Winifred. Herefordshire Speech. A Companion to the Dialects of Herefordshire and the Borders. Arch, Leominster. Revised, 1985.

Leominster History Study Group, The Early Church in Herefordshire, Leominster Historical Society 2000

Leominster.Tengeru Conservation Project. Herefordshire in Pictures. 1999.

Leonard, John. Churches of Herefordshire and their Treasures. Logaston Press, 2000.

Lewis, George F, Haber Nant Llann Nerch Freit. An upbringing on a Radnorshire hill farm , Logaston Press, 1998

Lewis, George F, Henfryn. Radnorshire hill farming life in the 1930s & 40s, Logaston Press, 2002

Lias, Anthony. Place Names of the Welsh Borderlands. Palmers Press, 1991.

Little Birch & Kings Thorn History Group, Little Birch on Aconbury Hill – A History of the Parish and its People, Logaston Press 2006

Longtown & District Historical Society Oral History Group, In the Shadow of the Black Mountains, Vol 1, Longtown & District Historical Society, 2002

Longtown & District Historical Society Oral History Group, In the Shadow of the Black Mountains, Vol 2, Longtown & District Historical Society, 2008

Longtown Millenium Committee, The Longtown Millenium Domesday Book , Longtown Millenium Committee, 2000

Lowe, JB, Welsh industrial Workers’ Housing 1775 – 1875, National Museum of Wales, 1997

M

Macklin, Fiona, The Story of RAF Madley, Logaston Press, 2006

Maund, Kari, The Welsh Kings. The Medieval Rulers of Wales, Tempus, 2002

McKaig, WH, Early Photographs of Radnor, Logaston Press, 2004

Meadows, Cecil A, The Victorian Ironmonger, Shire Publications, no date

Mee, Arthur ed, Herefordshire. The Western Gate of Middle England, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938

Mitchell, Julian, The Wye Tour and its Artists, Logaston Press, 2010

Moir, AL. The World Map in Hereford Cathedral. Hereford Cathedral, 1970.

Moore, Donald, Monuments of Early Christianity in Wales, National Museum of Wales, no date

Mowat, Charles Loch, The Golden Valley Railway, University of Wales Press, 1964

N

National Museum of Wales, Early Iron Age Art in Wales, National Museum of Wales, 1968

Nelmes, Graham V, A Pictorial History of King Henry VIII School, King Henry VIII School 1981?

Nicolle, Dorothy, Francis Frith’s Herefordshire. Living Memories, Francis Frith Book Co, 2002

Noble, Frank, The Shell Book of Offa’s Dyke Path, Queen Anne Press, 1972

Noble, Frank, The Shell Book of Offa’s Dyke Path. Queen Anne Press, 1969.

O

Otten, Rupert. On the Map. A Survey of Maps of the Border Counties 1600-1840. Monnow Valley Arts, 2007.

Owen, John A, The History of the Dowlais Iron Works 1759 – 1970, Starling Press, 1975

P

Palmer, Roy, Herefordshire Folklore, Logaston Press 2002

Palmer, Roy, The Parish Church of St. Clydawg. Pamphlet, ND.

Pigram, Ron. , Edwards, Dennis F, Cotswold Memories. Recollections of Rural Life in the Steam Age, Greenwich Editions, 1996

Powell, John, Hard Times in Herefordshire. The effects of the workhouse and The New Poor law, Logaston press, 2008

Powell, William Gilbert, 1902-1994 Oral History Transcript, 2009 (Oral Trancript)

Prosser, Doris M, One Hundred Years, 1972?

Prosser, Doris M, Times of Change, 1992

Q

Quinton, Michael B, A Drink For Its Time. Cider Making in the Western Counties, Museum of Cider Ltd, 1979

R

Rattenbury, Gordon, Tramroads of the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal , Railway & Canal Historical Society, 1980

Ravensdale, JR, History on your Doorstep, BBC, 1982

Ray, Keith, The Archaeology of Herefordshire , Logaston Press, 2015

Rees, William, The Great Forest of Brecknock, Brecknock Museum, 1966 (?)

Reeves, Norman C, The Town in the Marches. A History of Leominster and Environs, Orphans Press, Leominster, no date

Reid, Peter, Burke & Savills Guide to Country Houses Vol II Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Burke’s Peerage Ltd, 1980

Remfry, Paul Martin , Longtown castle 1084 – 1241, 1997

Renton, Charles, The Story of Herefordshire’s Hospitals, Logaston Press 1999

Reynolds, John, Windmills and Watermills, Hugh Evelyn, 1970

Richardson, Ruth Elizabeth, Mistress Blanche, Queen Elizabeth 1’s Confidante, Logaston press, 2007

Richardson, Ruth Elizabeth, Mistress Blanche, Queen Elizabeth 1’s Confidante (revised), Logaston Press, 2018.

Robinson, Rev Charles J, A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire (facsimile of 1872 ed), Logaston Press 200 (reprint 2009)

Roderick, AJ, Looking at Welsh History Book 2 Tudor Tines to the present day, A&C Black, 1970

Rowley, Trevor, The Welsh Border. Archaeology, History & Landscape, Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2001

S

Salter, Mike, The Castles of Gwent, Glamorgan & Gower, Folly Publications, 1991

Salter, Mike, The Castles of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Folly Publications, 1992

Salter, Mike, The Old Parish Churches of Gwent, Glamorgan & Gower, Folly Publications, 1991

Salter, Mike, The Old Parish Churches of Mid-Wales, Folly Publications, 1992

Salter, Mike, The Old Parish Churches of South-West Wales, Folly Publications, 1994

Salway, Peter, Roman Britain (Oxford History of England), Clarendon Press, 1982

Sant, Jonathon, The Healing Wells of Herefordshire, Mondial, 19945

Shoesmith, Ron, Alfred Watkins A Herefordshire Man, Logaston Press, 1990

Shoesmith, Ron, Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire, Logaston Press 2009

Shoesmith, Ron, Hereford History and Guide, Alan Sutton Ltd, 1992

Shoesmith, Ron, The Civil War in Hereford, Logaston Press, 1995

Shoesmith, Ron & Richardson, Ruth, Dore Abbey. A Definitive History, Logaston Press, 1997

Shoesmith, Ron & Richardson, Ruth, Dore Abbey. A Definitive History, Logaston press, 1997

Smith, Brian, Herefordshire Maps 1577-1800, Logaston Press 2004

Smith, Brian ed, Turnastone. Stability & Change in the Herefordshire Countryside 1800 – 2000, Golden Valley Studies Group & Logaston Press, 2010

Smith, Lawrence, New Radnor general quarter Sessions of the peace – Transcriptions -1827-1886, No date

Sprackling, Graham, A Single Field. Field Names in the Parish of Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, West Midlands WEA, no date

Stanford, SC, The Archaeology of the Welsh Marches, Collins, 1980

Stanford, SC, The Archaeology of the Welsh Marches, Stanford, The Old farmhouse, Ludlow, 1991

Stone, R & Appleton-Fox, N, A View from Hereford’s Past, Logaston Press 1996

Swanton, Michael, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Dent, 1997.

T

Tate, WE. The Parish Chest – A Study of Parochial Administration in England. Cambridge University Press, 1946.

Tavinor, Michael, Saints & Sinners of the Marches, Logaston Press, 2012

Taylor, Elizabeth, Kings Caple in Archenfield , Logaston press, 1997

Thakeray, Veronica, This Enchanted Land. Meanderings in the Highways & Byways of Wales & the Borderlands, Cressrelles, 2000

Thomas, Keith, Old Ebbw Vale in Photographs, Stewart Williams, 1979

Thorn, Frank & Caroline eds, Domesday Book Herefordshire (1086), Phillimore & Co, 1983

Thurlby, Malcolm, The Herefordshire school of Romanesque Sculpture, Logaston Press 2013

Timmins, H Thornhill, Nooks & Corners of Herefordshire, EP Publishing, 1982

Tipper, David, The Talybont Saga, Dwr Cymru, 1993

Tonkin, Jim & Tonkin, Muriel, The Book of Hereford, Barracuda Books, 1975

Tuck, George John, Newton Church and John Powell, 1911

U & V

W

Walker, Colin, Trails of Steam – along the Welsh Border, Vol 7, Oxford, 1980

Walker, CW. and Smith, AJ. Herefordshire Birds. Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, 1875.

Ward, Sadie, The Countryside Remembered, Selectabook, 2005

Ward, Tim, Herefordshire on old postcards, Reflections of a Bygone Age, Nottingham, 1987

Ward, Tim, Herefordshire on old postcards Vol 2, Reflections of a Bygone Age, Nottingham, 1989

Watt, Sarah ed, West Midlands Archaeology Issue 47, Council for British Archaeology, 2004

Watts, Val et al, The Changing Face of the Herefordshire Magistrates Courts, Privately printed, nd

Watkins, Alfred. Early British Trackways. Watkins Meter Co. 1922.

Watkins, Alfred. The Ley Hunter’s Manual – A Guide to Early Tracks. Watkins Meter Co. 1927.

Watkins, Alfred. The Old Standing Crosses of Herefordshire. Woolhope NFC, 1930.

Watkins, Alfred. The Old Straight Track. Abacus Books, 1974.

Weaver, Philip, A Dictionary of Herefordshire Biography, Logaston Press 2015

Webb, Rev John , Memorials of the Civil War in Herefordshire Vol 1 (1879), Golden Valley Publications, 2002

Webb, Rev John, Memorials of the Civil War in Herefordshire Vol 2 (1879) , Golden Valley Publications, 2002

West, John & Margaret, A History of Herefordshire, Phillimore & Co.Ltd, 1985

Whitehead, David & Patten, Jane ed., A Survey of Historic Parks & Gardens in Herefordshire, Hereford & Worcester Gardens Trust, 2001

Whitehead, David & Eisel, John, eds, A Herefordshire Miscellany. Commemorating 100 years of the Woolhope Club, Lapridge Publications, 1995

Williams, Joan, The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral Enterprises, 1996

Williams, Roger G, Talgarth in photographs. Jewel of the Black Mountains, Old Bakehouse Abertillery, 1995

Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House. Bracken Books, London, 1983.

Woolhope Club Archaeological Research Section, Herefordshire Field-Name Survey – Craswall (Clodock), Woolhope Club no date

Woolhope Club Archaeological Research Section, Herefordshire Field-Name Survey – Ewyas Harold, Woolhope Club no date

Woolhope Club Archaeological Research Section, Herefordshire Field-Name Survey – Longtown, Woolhope Club no date

Woolhope Club Archaeological Research Section, Herefordshire Field-Name Survey – St. Margarets , Woolhope Club no date

Woolhope Club Archaeological Research Section, Herefordshire Field-Name Survey –Michaelchurch Escley , Woolhope Club no date

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Herefordshire – its natural history, archaeology, history, Woolhope Club, 1954(?)

Please Note: Many volumes of the Woolhope Transactions from 1852 to 2002 can be borrowed by special arrangement with the LDHS Librarian. See Contacts page for details.

Some Woolhope Transactions can be borrowed from the normal Library Shelves – see list below:

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol XLII Part II, Woolhope Club 1977

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol XLVIII Part III, Woolhope Club 1996

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol XLIX Part I, Woolhope Club 1997

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol XLIX Part II, Woolhope Club 1998

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol XLIX Part III, Woolhope Club 1999

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol L Part I, Woolhope Club 2000

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol L Part II, Woolhope Club 2001

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol L Part III, Woolhope Club 2002

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 51, Woolhope Club 2003

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 52, Woolhope Club 2004

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 53, Woolhope Club 2005

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 54, Woolhope Club 2006

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 55, Woolhope Club 20

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 56, Woolhope Club 2008

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 57, Woolhope Club 2009

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 58, Woolhope Club 2010

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 59, Woolhope Club 2011

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, Transactions Vol 60, Woolhope Club 2012

W, Y & Z

Special Publications

The following are only available for reference or to borrow by individual arrangement with the librarian.

Papers and Pamphlets:

Index to Ewyas Lacy probate Documents. Vol 1 1660 – 1858. Vol 2 1584 – 1660. Published by LHDS

Local History Reports from the Olchon Development Project, 1999

Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club. General index to the ‘Transactions’ – 1998 to 1996; 1997 to 1999; 2000 to 2002.

Papers on mining and quarrying in the Forest of Dean, and the Union Pit disaster of 1902

Sprackling, G. Herefordshire Field-Names: 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991.

Rare Books: (for security reasons these are kept at the librarian’s home)

Howells, John. The History of the Old Baptist Church at Olchon with the Life & Martyrdom of Sir John Oldcastle, 188 (A facsimile photocopy of this book is on the library shelves for open borrowing).

Llewellin, Rev FG. The History of Saint Clodock, British King and Martyr. John Heywood Ltd. 1919

Phillott, Rev HW. Diocesan Histories – Hereford. SPCK, 1888

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire.

Vol I South-West 1931

Vol II East 1932

Vol III North-West 1934