Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire

Description
Ewyas-Harold, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Monnow, 1 mile NW of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R., and 11 1/2 miles SW of Hereford, with a post and money order office under Pontrilas (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Pontrilas. Acreage, 1853 ; population, 507. A castle was built here by King Harold, but has disappeared. A small priory of Benedictine monks, afterwards a cell to Gloucester Abbey, was founded here about 1100. Ewyas was formerly a lordship, extending to the vale of Honddu beyond the Black Mountains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford: net value, £90 with residence. Patron, Bishop of Gloucester. The church is Early English and was restored in 1868. It contains an ancient tomb. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.