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Monkland, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"MONKLAND, a parish in the hundred of Stretford, county Hereford, 3 miles S.W. of Leominster, its railway station and post town, and 13 from Hereford. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the river Arrow, and is wholly agricultural. There was formerly a Benedictine cell to Conches Abbey in Normandy, founded by Ralph Toni in the reign of William Rufus, and granted by Henry V. at the suppression of alien priories to the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The Weobly and Leominster turnpike road passes through the village, as does also the river Arrow, which is well stocked with fish, affording excellent sport to the lovers of angling. The soil is of a clayey nature resting upon a layer of red sandstone. Courts leet are occasionally held in the village.

The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £250. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford, value £250, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a stone structure, with a tower containing four bells. It was rebuilt in 1825, and was restored in 1853, when the nave was refitted with low seats. There is a National school for both sexes erected in 1853, and situated on the bank of the river. The parochial charities produce about £5 per annum. G. Bengough, Esq., is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]