Hentland Explained

Official Name:Hentland
Static Image Name:St. Dubricius' church, Hentland - geograph.org.uk - 894976.jpg
Static Image Caption:St Dubricius' Church, Hentland
Coordinates:51.935°N -2.665°W
Os Grid Reference:SO542265
Population:436
Population Ref:(2011 Census)[1]
Civil Parish:Hentland
Lieutenancy England:Herefordshire
Unitary England:Herefordshire
Region:West Midlands
Country:England
Constituency Westminster:Hereford and South Herefordshire
Post Town:Ross-on-Wye
Post Town1:Hereford
Postcode Area:HR
Postcode Area1:HR
Postcode District:HR9
Postcode District1:HR2
Dial Code:01989
Dial Code1:01432

Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish about 5miles north-west of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, England.

The small hamlet settlement of Hentland at the east of the parish contains the parish church of St Dubricius. The civil parish, bounded on its eastern side by the River Wye, also includes the villages of Hoarwithy and St Owen's Cross, and the hamlets of Gillow, Kynaston, Little Pengethley, Llanfrother and Red Rail. The area is mostly farmland, with a small proportion being woodland. The soil consists of red loam, with a subsoil of rock and clay.

The name 'Hentland' derives from the Old Welsh Hên-llan, meaning "old church-enclosure".

Hentland is the site of an early Welsh monastery, built by Saint Dubricius in the 6th century, which probably stood in the field just south of the present parish church, and is a place for Saint Dubricius' pilgrimage.

Gillow Manor is a 14th-century manor house with part of its moat still surviving; in the Middle Ages it was one of the homes of the Pembridge family of Herefordshire.

Hall Court Farm is a Grade II listed half timbered house at Kynaston dating from the early 1600s.

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 30 October 2015.