Bacton, Herefordshire

Description
Bacton, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, in the Golden Valley, near the Dore river, 1 1/2 mile NW of Abbeydore, 4 miles NW of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R., and 11 SW of Hereford, the post town ; the money order office is at Ewyas-Harold, and telegraph office at Pontrilas. Acreage, 1178; population, 117. The Grange and the Manor House are the principal residences. Morehampton Park, now a farm, was formerly a seat of the Hoskyns family, and here Sergeant Hoskyns is said to have entertained James I. with a morris dance of twelve centenarians. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £92 with residence. The church is a small interesting building with Norman work; it contains a monument to Blanche Parry, a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth. Two special features in connection with this church are the beautiful silver gilt chalice and paten of pro-Reformation date, by the same maker as the celebrated Nettlecombe chalice, and the worked white silk altar cloth presented to the church by Blanche Parry in Elizabeth's reign.