Knill, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1856

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1856

KNILL.

KNILL is a township and parish, 23 miles north-west from Hereford, 4 from Kington, and 3½ from Presteign, in Wigmore Hundred, Presteign Union, Hereford archdeaconry and Hereford bishopric; it is situated on the borders of Radnorshire. The church of St. Michael is an old stone building; has nave, chancel, and tower with wooden spire, and is the burial-place of Sir Samuel Romilly. The living is a rectory, worth about £75 yearly, with 10 acres of glebe land, in the gift of Sir John Walsham, Bart; the Rev. John Jenkins, M.A., is the incumbent. Knill Court is a handsome mansion, in the Elizabethan style. The population, in 1851, was 78, and the acreage is 798. Sir John Walsham, Bart., is lord of the manor and chief landowner.

   WOODSIDE is a farm.

GENTRY
Walsham, Sir John, bart, Knill Court
TRADERS
Edwards Evan, wheelwright	Harper Ann (Mrs.) farmer & lime burner, Woodside
Hamar Henry, farmer	Lewis William, boot & shoe maker

   Letters through Kington, which is also the nearest money order Office.

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in December 2002
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1856 in Hereford Central Library]