Laysters

Laysters is a civil parish in north-east Herefordshire, England, and approximately north-northeast from the city and county town of Hereford. The nearest towns are the market towns of Leominster to the south-west, and Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, miles to the north-east. Within Letton is the Grade 1 listed Church of St Andrew. The parish was alternatively spelt 'Leysters', the ecclesiastic spelling.

==History== Laysters in the Domesday Book is written as "Last", in 1228 as "Lastes", and in 1242 and 1257 as "Lastres". The parish hamlet of Woonton, in Domesday is written as "Wenetone". Domesday shows that Laysters was in the Hundred of Wolfhay, under three owners, and described as 'waste'. The first manor had in 1066 belonged to Arngrim of Womerton and Arnketil, lordship transferred in 1086 to Roger of Mussegros, who was also tenant-in-chief to king William I. The second, in 1066, belonged to Godric, transferred to Bernard in 1086 under the tenants-in-chief Durand of Gloucester, and Walter son of Roger. The third, in 1066, belonged to Eadric the Wild under the overlordship of King Edward, in 1086 remaining with Edric who was also tenant-in-chief in chief to William I.