Catalogue description Records from the Old Priory, Leominster

The records have been treated throughout as one unit, labelled in them are items dating from the days of the Boards of Guardians, and efforts to re-classify the series making the 1930 watershed would lead to greater confusion than to retain the classification system normally adopted for records of the Boards of Guardians for the administration of the Poor Laws.

For other material of the Boards of Guardians see Accession number K 42, and the green folders, HLG, as well in the present file labelled HLC, HCC, Welfare and for references in the subject index.

Herefordshire Country Council, Social Welfare Committee

Ledbury Poor Law Union, Herefordshire, c 1836 -c 1930

All records listed here are strictly controlled by the 30 year access rule

• Leominster, Herefordshire

Note: until 1930, this establishment had been administered as the Workhouse of Ledbury Union.

After that date it was managed by the Social Welfare Committee of the County Council.

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