Hentland

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Hentland
Herefordshire
St. Dubricius' church, Hentland - geograph.org.uk - 894976.jpg
St Dubricius' Church, Hentland
Location
Grid reference: SO542265
Location: 51°56’6"N, 2°39’54"W
Data
Population: 436  (2011)
Post town: Ross-on-Wye / [Hereford
Postcode: HR9 / HR2
Dialling code: 01989 / 01432
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Hereford
and South Herefordshire

Hentland is a hamlet in Herefordshire, about five miles north-west of Ross-on-Wye.

The name 'Hentland' derives from the Old Welsh Hên-llan, meaning "old church-enclosure".

This is a little place. It has a parish church, St Dubricius, derives its dedication from the foundation of the village by that early monastic saint.

North of the hamlet flows the River Wye, which bounds the parish on the east: also within the parish are the villages of Hoarwithy and 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 wais the site of an early Welsh monastery, built by Saint Dubricius in the 6th century, which probably stood in the field just south of the present parish church

Gillow Manor is a 14th-century manor house with part of its moat still surviving; in the Middle Ages it was one of the homes of the Pembridge family of Herefordshire.

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