Kimbolton, Herefordshire

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Kimbolton
Herefordshire
Kimbolton Church - geograph.org.uk - 1263936.jpg
St James the Great Church, Kimbolton
Location
Grid reference: SO523614
Location: 52°14’56"N, 2°41’56"W
Data
Population: 472
Post town: Leominster
Postcode: HR6
Dialling code: 01568
Local Government
Council: Herefordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Herefordshire

Kimbolton is a village in Herefordshire, around three miles north-east of Leominster and 15 miles north of Hereford. The village is on the A4112 road, near its junction with the A49.

The parish church in the village is St James. It has 13th-century features and has two Norman windows in the chancel. The spire is shingled.[1]

Bath Camp, a small Iron Age hill fort, lies on a ridge above the Whyte Brook about a mile and a half south-east of the church.[1]

The parish had a population in mid-2010 of 434, increasing to 472 at the 2011 Census.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, 1963; 2012 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-12575-7