Hentland

Hentland
Hentland  Hentland shown within Herefordshire
Population	436 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SO542265
Civil parish	Hentland
Unitary authority	Herefordshire
Ceremonial county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ross-on-Wye
Postcode district	HR9
Post town	Hereford
Postcode district	HR2
Dialling code	01989
	01432
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Hereford and South Herefordshire
List of places UK England Herefordshire

Coordinates: 51°56′06″N 2°39′54″W / 51.935°N 2.665°W

Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, England

Hentland itself is very small and often missed off maps of the area. The parish, bounded on its eastern side by the River Wye, also includes the village of St Owen's Cross and the hamlets of Gillow, Kynaston, Little Pengethley, Llanfrother and Red Rail. The area is mostly farmland, with a small proportion being woodland. The soil consists of red loam, with a subsoil of rock and clay.

Hentland is best known as the site of a very early Welsh monastery, built by Saint Dubricius in the 6th century. It probably stood in the field just south of the present Church of England parish church, which is still a place of pilgrimage for Dubricius' modern devotees. The name is Old Welsh, Hên-llan, meaning "old church-enclosure". Gillow Manor is a 14th-century manor house with part of its old moat still surviving. In the Middle Ages it was one of the homes of the Pembridge family of Herefordshire.

References

1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 30 October 2015.

Further reading

• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 144.

External links

The New Inn, St Owen's Cross

• The Parish Churches of Hentland & Hoarwithy
• Church and Community Website
• Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley - Tresseck & Altbough, Hentland