Kentchurch, Herefordshire

Description
Kentchurch, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the river Monnow, at the boundary with Monmouthshire, 2 miles SE of Pontrilas station on the G.W.B., and 14 SW by W of Hereford, and has a post office under Pontrilas (B.S.O.); money order office, Grosmont; telegraph office, Pontrilas. The parish includes the hamlet of Pontrilas, and comprises 3353 acres; population, 346. The manor, with Kentchurch Court, has belonged for several centuries to the Scudamore family. The Court is a castellated mansion erected about 1824 on the site of a former house, and stands in an extensive park on the W slope of Garway Hill. The living is a rectory, with Llangua in Monmouthshire annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; net value of Kentchurch, £181 with residence. The church is ancient, was rebuilt in 1859, has a tower, and contains memorials to members of the Scudamore family. In the churchyard is a fine cross erected in 1887, in honour of the Queen's jubilee, upon the base of an ancient one.