Official Name: | Aconbury |
Type: | Village |
Country: | England |
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Aconbury (Welsh: Caer Rhain) is a village in the English county of Herefordshire, situated on a road between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye.
St John the Baptist church was originally the church of a nunnery founded before 1237. The style of the current building is late 13th century. Some restoration work was carried out in 1863 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.[1]
According to a Fortean Times article, a phantom monk was once exorcised into a bottle, which is now buried in the wall of the church.[2]
On nearby Aconbury Hill is an Iron Age hillfort, Aconbury Camp.
. Nikolaus Pevsner . The Buildings of England - Herefordshire . . 1963 . New Haven and London . 62 . 978-0-300-09609-5 .