Commonwealth Gap in Herefordshire

[lancep]

I am interested in hearing from anyone who has had success outside of parish registers with tracing events which fall in the Commonwealth gap period. I am particularly interested in Brockhampton in Woolhope and I have found the Woolhope Manor records useful but difficult to decipher. Apart from wills are there any other sources people are using that are helping to bridge the gap?

[muddy48]

COMMONWEALTH GAP
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/adv_07_17_and_18_01.shtml

"The 'Commonwealth gap'

For those lucky enough to research back that far, the era of the English Civil Wars and the subsequent 'Interregnum' or 'Commonwealth' period (1653-1660) can be beset with problems. "


BROCKHAMPTON
http://www.brockhampton.com/history.htm

http://www.bosci.net/LOWV/Village%20pages%20-%20Brockhampton.htm

1042 - 1350
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XSE9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=brockhampton+WOOLHOPE+history&source=bl&ots=Exb7lO-dk7&sig=M20DvFRQYJtAQS65iJxCUXzzJys&hl=en&ei=4CfYTubtGobJmAXV46zVCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/newsletter-five

"Some of us then finished the afternoon by visiting the deserted medieval village discovered last year near the Grove, Brockharnpton, SO 696556.  Although now in the parish of Brockhampton, the land on which this deserted settlement lies was, until the Local Government Board reorganization of parish boundaries in 1894, in the parish of Linton. "

WOOLHOPE
http://www.londonfhc.org/content/catalogue?c=3&p=England,England,Hereford,Woolhope&f=1

http://www.woolhopeclub.org.uk/HAN.asp

"The Woolhope Club ... 1066-1282, Part I (publication), A Political History of Abbey Cwmhir and its Patrons, 1176-1282 (publication) .... Brockhampton, Brockhampton Church, by Ross, Brockhampton Church, near Fownhope, Brockhampton, ... "

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10204136