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Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1856
Transcription by Richard Lane © 2002PENCOMBE.
PENCOMBE is a Township, Parish and village, 4 miles west from Bromyard (its post town), 6 west from Dinmore Railway Station, and 11 from Hereford; it is in Broxash Hundred, Bromyard Union, Frome deanery, Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric. The church is a very ancient and remarkable building, in the Norman style; the tower is stone; was rebuilt in 1840, and contains 3 bells; it has a nave, chancel, apse, porch an ancient font, and three modern tablets. The living is a rectory, worth £490 yearly, with residence and 119 acres of glebe land, in the gift of John Arkwright, Esq.; the Rev. Henry Barry Domville, M.A., is the incumbent. There is a Sunday School and day school for boys and girls, supported by the rector. The Rectory House is very pleasantly situated about half a mile from the church. The population, in 1851, was 359, and the acreage is 3,955. The soil is clayey; the subsoil partly stone. John Arkwright, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats, and clover. A Court Leet is held at the Court- House once in three years; and by an ancient custom, The Lord of the Manor claims a pair of gilt spurs when a Mayor of Hereford dies while in office.
GRENDON WARREN is an extra- parochial place, sometimes returned as a parish, and in 1851, were 635 acres, and a population of 38.
MARSTEN STANNET is a hamlet.
SPARRINGTON, Maidenhill, Banstone, Upper Egdon, Baldhurst, The Nash, Fishpool, Day House, Stone Lodge, Court House, Maidenhide, Fishpool, Wootton, Upper and Lower Sidnal, Marsh, Lower Marston, Betterley, Hyde, and Durstone, are farms.
GENTRY. Domvile Rev. Henry Barry, B.A., The Rectory Jordan Mrs. Copyland
TRADERS Baker Thomas, farmer, Sparrington Kinsey Samuel, farmer, Little Marstone Banford John, wheelwright Lambert Henry, farmer, Wootton Brown William, farmer, Stone Lodge Lane Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Grendon Court Brtten William, farmer, Upper Egdon Lane Richard, farmer, Little Hegdon Colley James, farmer, Maidenhide Lawrence Charles, beer retailer Edwards Jonathan, farmer, Banstone Mason Nicholas, farmer, Bitterley Hyde Edwards William, farmer, Baldhurst Mason Richard, farmer, Pencombe Mill Goode William, farmer, Pencombe Court Maund George, farmer, Dorston Griffiths John, farmer, The Nash Parker William, farmer, Sidnall Grosvenor John, farmer, Fish Pool Perry Thomas, boot and shoemaker Gurney Richard, blacksmith Seaborn Francis, Victualler, Huntsman Tavern Herring Philip, farmer, Day House Williams Richard, farmer, Marsh Court Jones Edwin, farmer, Lower Sidnal Winney John, farmer, Great Marstone Letters through Bromyard, which is 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]