Ballingham

Ballingham
Herefordshire
Ballingham
Location
Grid reference:	SO574318
Location:	51°58’60"N, 2°37’17"W
Data
Population:	181  (2011)
Post town:	Hereford
Postcode:	HR2
Local Government
Council:	Herefordshire

Ballingham is a small Herefordshire village of 181 souls, according to the 2011 census, standing in a loop of the River Wye, between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye.

The village has a parish church dedicated to St Dubricius which dates from the Anglo-Saxon times. (The parish church in Whitchurch, also in Herefordshire, between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth also carries his name.) The church was refurbished in the late Victorian era, but the 14th-century roof was kept. The tower dates from this period also although the nave is 13th-century.

The old primary school is now the village hall and was extensively refurbished in time for the Millennium celebrations in 2000.

From 1908 to 1964 the village was served by Ballingham railway station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ballingham)

• Ballingham in the Domesday Book