Hentland

Hentland

Infobox UK place
official_name= Hentland
civil_parish= Hentland
population= 443 (2001 census) [cite web | url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=791337&c=Hentland&d=16&e=15&g=396242&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1217682384770&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 | title=2001 Census: Key Statistics: Parish Headcounts: Area: Hentland CP (Parish) | publisher=Office for National Statistics | accessdate=2008-08-02 ]
country= England
region= West Midlands
os_grid_reference= SO542265
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
constituency_westminster= Hereford and South Herefordshire
unitary_england= Herefordshire
lieutenancy_england= Herefordshire
latitude= 51.935
longitude= -2.665

Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located five miles north-west of Ross-on-Wye.

Hentland itself is very small and often missed off maps of the area. The parish, bounded on its eastern side by the River Wye, also includes the village of 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 woodland. The soil consists of red loam, with a subsoil of rock and clay. Hentland is best known as the site of a very early Welsh monastery, built by Saint Dubricius in the 6th century. It probably stood in the field just to the south of the present parish church, which is still a place of pilgrimage for Dubricius' modern devotees. The name is Welsh, Hên-llan, meaning 'old church-enclosure'. Gillow Manor is a fine 14th century manor house with part of its old moat still surviving. In medieval times, it was one of the homes of the great Pembridge family of Herefordshire.

References

External links

* [http://www.hentlandandhoarwithy.co.uk/ The Parishes Churches of Hentland & Hoarwithy]
* [http://www.stw.org.uk/ Church and Community Website]
* [http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/archaeology/hentland.html Early British Kingdoms: St. Dubricius' Church, Hentland, Herefordshire]
* [http://www.wyevalleyhistory.net/Settlements%20-%20Tresseck%20&%20Altbough.htm Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley - Tresseck & Altbough, Hentland]


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