Kinnersley, Herefordshire

Description
Kinnersley, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 4 miles SSE of Weobly, and 8 ENE of Kington, and has a station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R. It has a post office under Letton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Eardisley. The parish contains also the township of Newchurch. Acreage, 2249; population, 305. Kinnersley Castle, an old building of the time of James I., standing in well-wooded grounds, and on the site of a fortalice once of some importance, is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; tithe rent charge, £420 with residence. The church, with a semi-detached saddleback tower, dates from the 12th to the 14th century, and was restored in 1868.