Hatfield, Herefordshire

Description
Hatfield, a parish in Herefordshire, near the boundary with Worcestershire, 6 miles E of Leominster. It has a post office under Leominster; money order and telegraph office, Bredenbury. Acreage, 1948; population of the civil parish, 241; of the ecclesiastical, 210. Hatfield Court, the chief residence, is a modern mansion; the old Court, an Elizabethan mansion, is a picturesque, ivy-clad ruin. Part of the land is under hops. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £125. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and was partly restored in 1878 by the Ashton family. It has a stained glass window, by Meyer of Munich, to the memory of Thomas Ashton, who died in 1869. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.