Marstow, Herefordshire

Description
Marstow, a parish in Herefordshire, on an affluent of the river Wye, 2 miles W of Kerne Bridge station on the Ross and Monmouth branch of the G.W.R., and 5 SW of Ross. The parish includes the hamlets of Pencraig and Brelstone, and (for civil purposes) the township of Glewstone. Acreage, 2010; population of the civil parish, 395; of the ecclesiastical, with Pencoyd, 310. There are post offices at Glewstone and Pencraig, under Ross; money order office, Goodrich; telegraph office, Kerne Bridge railway station. Fairfield House, Glewstone Court, and Pencraig Court are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Pencoyd, in the diocese of Hereford; joint net value, £230. Patron, the Vicar of Sellack. The church was rebuilt in 1857.