Much Birch
| Much Birch | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 58 ′ N , 2 ° 43 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 833 (as of 2001) | ||
| surface | 5.27 km² (2.03 mi² ) | ||
| Population density | 1.58 | ||
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| prefix | 01981 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Herefordshire | ||
| Website: muchbirchparish.org.uk | |||
Much Birch is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire , England , between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye . The parish includes the villages of Kings Thorn, Much Birch and parts of Wormelow.
The Herefordshire Parish of Much Birch is halfway between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye. It stretches for about two kilometers along the A49, a busy trunk road that runs from the South Wales border to north-west England .
The Church of St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury was built by Thomas Foster in 1837 . The ceiling of the chancel is painted with cherubins looking over clouds.
Web links
Commons : Much Birch - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Much Birch Herefordshire Parish Plan. The Countryside Agency, Much Birch Parish Council, 2004, accessed February 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Hereford and Leominster: Bromyard and Ledbury . In: OS Landranger Map . B2. Edition. No. 149 . Ordnance Survey , Southampton 2006, ISBN 978-0-319-22953-8 (English).
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner : Herefordshire . In: The Buildings of England . Yale University Press , New Haven and London 1963, ISBN 978-0-300-09609-5 , pp. 272 (English).