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KINNERSLEY is a parish, on the road from Leomin­ College, Cambridge. The charitie-s are of £ro yearly ster to Hay, with a station on the , Hay and value. Kinnersley Castle, the residence of de F. Penne­ Brecon line of the Midland railway, 14 miles by road and father esq. J.P. is a fine old mansion of Jacobean date. II~ by rail north-west-by-wt>st from Hereford, 9 south­ Thomas George 1Vood Reavely esq. who is lord of the east from Kington, 12 south-west from , 10 manor, de F. Pennefather esq. J.P. Messrs. Hobhouse north-east from Hay and 161 from London, in the North­ and the trustees of Mrs. Bigglestone are the chief land­ ern divi~ion of the county, Stretford and Wolphy hundred, owners. The soil is clayey; ~ubsoil, marl. The <>hief Weobley union and petty• sessional division, Kington crops are wheat, beans, barley and turnips. The area county court district, rural deanery of Weobley and arch­ is 2,249 acres; rateable value, £3,208; and the popu­ deaconry and . The church of St. lation in 19II was 242. James is an ancient building in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four NEWCHURCH is a hamlet, distant one mile north­ bays, aisles, south porch and a semi-detached vestern east, in Wolphy hundred. Mrs. Gurney Pease is lady of tower, with saddle-back roof, containing 4 bells: the the manor and chief landowner. Newton, a quarter of windows are stained, and there is one good monument a mile north-west; Ailey, half a mile south; and Sallies, t.o Francis Smalman, lord of the manor of Kinnersley, three-quarters of a mile north-east, are places here. and Susan his wife, dated 1631; there are also remains Post & T. Office.-William Branston, sub-postmaster. of one brass of the time of Henry V. to a former Letters from Hereford arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched r·ector, ob. 1421: a new organ was provided in 1888, at 5.20 p.m. week days only. The telegraph office is-. at a cost of £250, as a memorial to Miss Domvile open on sundays from 8 a.m. to ro a.m. Eardisley,_ and to the Rev. John Clutton, of Norton, prebendary 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order office of Hereford Cathedral: the reredos was enriched at the Pillar Letter Box, a.t the church, cleared. a.t 4.50 p.m. expense of Colonel Sir R. Bridgford K.C.B., V.D. and week days only in 1907 a memorial window was erected to Mr. and Pillar Letter Box, at station, cleared at 5.10 p.lll. week Mrs. Thomas Reavely: the church was thoroughly re­ daY's only stored at a cost of £r,5oo in r868, under the direction Letter Box, Newton, cleared at 4.25 p.m. week days-- of Mr. Nicholson, of Hereford, architect, and reopened only on Easter Sunday, r86g, and since then it has been extensively decorated from designs by G. F. Bodley Pu.blic Elementary School (mixed). with teacher's re.si- Psq. A.R.A., F.S.A. The Tegister dates from the year deuce, built in 186I, for 44 children; average attend- 162s. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ 28s, ance, 35 ; it is endowed with about £5 yearly, derived~ including IS acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift from a very ancient bequest; Miss F. L. A. Barry,. of trustees of the late T. Reavely, and held since mistress ,. 1873 by the Rev. Frederick Andrews B.A. of St. John's Railway Station (vacant), station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Comber Edwin, farmer, Little Parks· Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone & General· Andrews Rev. Fredk. B.A. Rectory Davies James, farmer, Newchurch Trading Co. Limited (James Ked-. Berridge Wm. Guy, Up. Newton ho Davies Lavinia (Mrs.), farmer, Lower ward, agent), Railway station Pennefather de F., J.P. Kinnersle•y Ailey farm Price William, cottage farmer castle; & Junior Carlton club, Davies Samuel, farmer Pritcha.rd John, farmer, Castle farm London SW Guest James, farmer, Oldcastle Randall Thomas, blacksmith Troughton George Fredk. Ailey cot Jones Thomas, private gardener to Smith ,James, farmer, Lower Newton Young William, .Ailey de F. Pennefather esq. J.P Smith Thomas, farmer, Ailey COMMERCIAL. Lewis Thomas Tomkins, coal mer- Smith William, farmer, The Parks Barlow Geol'ge, farm bailiff to de F. chant & assistant overseer Taylor Fredk. Albt. farmer, Gate frm Pennefather esq. J.P. Upp. Newton Lilwall Wm. farmer, Little Parton Trumper Samuel, wheelwright Branston William, beer retailer & sub- ~'i:ay James, gamekeeper to de F. Turner Mary (Mrs.), Belle Vue P.H postmaster, .Ailey Pennefather esq. J.P Wilkinson William, cwttage farmer KINSHAM is a parish on the road from formerly a seat of t.he Earls of Oxford, is now the seat to Presteign, and on the , near the Radnor- of John Stanhope Arkwright esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the. shire border, 4 miles north-east from Presteign (Radnor• manor and chief landowner: the place is of interest as shire) terminal station on the Leominster and Kington having once been the residence of the family of Miss. branch of the Great Western railway, about 12 north-west Florence Nightingale: Lord Byron once stayed some from Leominster, 7 north-east from Kington and about time at· the Court; a room in the house is still called 23 north-west from Hereford, in the Northern division of Byron's room, and there is a seat under a large cedar the county, Wigmore hundred, Kington union and petty tree in the grounds where he is said to have written. sessional division and Presteign county court district. "Childe Harold: " the scenery is exquisite and the Upper Kinsham and Lower Kinsham were amalgamated fishing abundant. Inunediat~ly below Kinsham Court. ).>larch 25, r886, and the parish designated Kinsham. is Kinsham Dingle, one of the most picturesque spots. All Saints church is a building of stone, in the Early in the county, at the bottom of which runs the river f~nglish ~tyle, consisting of chancel, nave and a small Lugg. It was through this dingle that the defeated belfry containing one bell: the chancel retains a piscina, Lancastrians fled after the battle of Mortimer's Cross. and there is a. hagioswpe with shutter: in the chancel The soil is of a clayey description; subsoil, the same. is also a fine marble tablet to Thomas Barley esq. and The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The on the floor an old altar-slab, 4 by 9 feet, some of the area is 1,529 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable crosses on which are still visible. The register dates value, [1,543; the population in 19II was 105. from the year I594· The living is a donative, yearly value £so, in the gift of John Stanhope Arkwright esq. Letters through Presteign, Radnor, arrive about 8.30 D.L., J.P. and held since 1887 by the Rev. Thomas a.m & 6.40 -p.m. The nearest money order & tele- Milman Newbery B.A. of London University, who is graph office is at Lingen, about 2 miles distant also rector of and resides at Byton. Kinsham Court, The children of this parish attend the school at Byton Arkwright John Stanhope D.L., J.P. Davies James, farmer, see Powell & '! Rollings Arthur, blacksmith Kinsham court Davies Webb Henry, gamekeeper to J. S. 1 Edwards John Hunt, farmer, ~ew Lo Arlnvright esq. D.L., J.P COM~IERCIAL. Lucas John, farmer 1 'Voolley Charles. farmer Bevan 1Y. gardener to J. S. Ark- Morgan William, farmer I Yeomans John Henry, farmer wright e~q. D.L., J.P Powell & Davies, farmers I KNILL is a parish on the borders of Radnorshire, 5 r8r8: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876, at a miles north from Kington gtation and 3! south from Pres­ cost of about £r,ooo: three stained windows have been teign (Radnor) terminal station on the Leomintlter and inserted, and in 1883 a pulpit of carved oak was erected Kin[!ton branch of the Great Western railway and 23 by Miss ~ell, of Northumberland, in memory of the Rev. north-west from Hereford, in the Northern division of Prebendary Charles Walsham M.A. d. 18 Jan. 1882. Ths the county, Wigmore hundred, Kington union and petty register dates from the year 1585. The living is a rec­ sessional division, Presteign county court district, rural tory, net yearly value £6o, including 91 acres of glebe, deanery of Kington and archdeaconry and diocese of Here­ with residence, in the gift of Sir John Walsham bart. ford. The neighbourhood is very picturesqu~ and the and held since 1910 by the Rev. Montague Scott B.A. Hindwell brook runs through the parish. The church of of Durham University. The Rectory house was restored St. Michael is an ancient building of stone, consisting of and enla.rged in 1873 and occupied for the :first t.ime, chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western after a lapse of nearly roo years, by the Rev. H. T. tower containing 3 bells: here was buried Sir Samuel Moggridge, rector 1873-82. Knill Court, a handsome Romi1ly kt. solicit<>r-gene'l"all 18o6-7, who died 2 Nov. Elizabethan mansion, now occupied by Lt.-Col. Osborne HEREFORDQHIRE g