DIRECTORY.] . ACONBURY. 13 ABBEYDORE, or Dore, is a pa.rish and village, in the Powell Rev. Thomas Prosser M.A., D.T.. Rectory, Golden Valley and OD the , celebrated for its trout, and from which the parish derives its name, with a Rees Capt. Richard Powell, The Firs, station on the Golden Valley railway, which forms a junction Robinson Edwd. Lewis Gavin esq. D.L. Poston,Peterchurch at station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Here­ Trafford Henry Randolph esq. D.L. Michaelchurch court, ford railway, 2l miles north-west, 13 south-west from Here­ Hereford ford, 14 west from Ross, alld is the head of a union, in the Trafford Edwd.Guy esq. D.L. Michaelchurchcourt,Hereford Southern division of the county, Webtree hundred, Hereford Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Llanwarne, Hereford county court district, rural deaneryof Weobley (firstdivision) 1tnd archdeaconry and . Thechurchof St. Petty Sessions are held at the Police Station on alternate Mary is a large building of stone, in the Transition, Norman mondays at II a.m. and Early English styles, and formerly belonged to the The places within the petty sessional division are :-Abbey­ Cistercian abbey founded here in 1147, by Robert Ewias, dore, Bacton, Crasswall Dulas, Ewvas Harold, Kender­ Lord of Ewias Harold : of the conventual church, the choir, church, Kentchurcb, , Kingstone, LlanciIlo, presbytery, transept and eastern chapel-aisle remain as well , Longtown, Madley, Micbaelchurch Escley, as the group-chapels, north and south, the latter restored Newton, Peterchurch, Rowlstone, St. Devereux, St. Mar­ in 1894 by Miss Hoskyns, the only surviving daughter of garet's, Thruxton, Tyberton, Treville, Turn3stone, Vow­ ChandosWren Hoskyns esq. late of Harewood, Herefordshire; church, Walterstone, the nave, originally of tenbays, and 167 feet long, retains two Police Sergeant, George Williams ronnd pillars; and there are aisles, south porch and an em­ Dore Union. battled tower containing 6 bells: the original stone altar slab The union comprises 27 parishes and townships in Hereford­ is still in use; at the east end are three lofty arches, behind shire, viz. : Abbeydore, Bacton, . Dulas, which is an ambulatory, with fonr slender pillars, opening Harold, Grosmont (Mon.), Kenderchurch, , into an aisle with five chapels; in the south choir aisle are Kilpeck, Kingstone, Llancillo, Llangua (Mon.), Llanveyno, two lockers and a stone coffin: there are also sculptures of Longtown, MadleY,Michaelchurch Escley, Newton, , the Coronation of the Virgin, an abbot, and a small figure of Peterchurch, Rowlstone, St. Devereux, St. Mar!!aret's, Bishop Breton of Hereford (1269-75) : the transeptal chapel Thruxton, Tyberton, Treville, Turnastone, , contains a double drain and three lockers: the church also Walterstone & Wormbridge. The population of the union contains a monument to Robert Ewias, the founder, one to in 1891 was 7,754; area 75,567 acres; rateable value in General Sir Roger de Clifford and a figure of a Knig-ht 189<), £77,495· Templar: there are four stained windows, three of which Board day, each other monday, at the Workhouse date from 1634, in which year the church was restored by Clerk to tbe Guardians,Thomas Llanwarne,East st. Hereford John 1St Viscount Scudamore of Sligo; the total length Relieving Officers, Clodock district, Henry Miles. Longtown; when complete was 260 feet, and there were cloisters 90 Kentchurch district, James Hughes, Ewias Harold feet square. The register dates from the year 1634. The Vaccination Officers. James Hughes, Ewias Harold; P. living is a rectory, yearly average value from tithe rent­ Gwillim, Cwm Dulas; & J. Taylor, Madley charge £437, including 9 acres of glebe, with residence, in Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Kentchurch district, the gift of Captain Thomas Freke Lewis, and held since H. P. D'Arcy Benson, Grosmont; Longtown district, 1868 by the Rev. Alfred Phillipps A.K.C. The charities are Leslie Lachlan Thain, Longtown; Madley district, J. of about £60 yearly value. Abbeydore Court, t!J.e seat of Kingdon Frost, of Kingstone . Captain Thomas Freke Lewis D.L., J.P. is a plain modern Superintendent Registrar, Thomas Llanwarne, Hereford; building of stone, pleasantly situated. Captain Lewis, who deputy, Stephen A. Herbert, Hereford is lord of the manor, Percy Archer Clive esq. of Whitfield Reg-istrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Clodock sub-dist. 1tnd Lieut.-Col. Robert Bridges Bellers, of Grove villa, Philip Gwillim, Cwm Dulas Worcester, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey Relristrars of Birtbs & Deatbs, Kentchurch sub-dist. James and loamy; the subsoil is clay and sandstone. The chief Hu~hes, Ewias Harold; Madley sub-dist. John Taylor crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,358 acres; Workbouse, a building of stone. to hold 100 inmates; Rev. Tateable value, £4,284; the population in 1891 was 480, in­ JOhll Grosvenor Monro M.A. cbaplain; H. P. D'Arcy cluding 99 officers and inmates of the workhouse. BenRon. medical officer; Charles W. Wall, master; Mrs. Parish Clerk, James Edwards. M. Wall, matron Post Office.-John James, sub-postmaster. L~tters received through Pontrilas (Railway Sub-Office) at 9.30 a.m.; dis­ School Attendance Committee. patched at ".15 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but Clerk, Thomas Llanwarne, Hereford not paid. The nearest money order office is at Ewias Harold Attendance Officers, The Relieving Officers & telegraph office at Pontrilas Dore Rural District Council. County Magistrates for the Petty Sessional Division of Dore. Meets at Workhouse, Abbeydore. on every fourth monday Wood Herbert Howort.h esq. M.A., D.L. Whitehouse, Vow- at 12.,0 p.m. church. Hereford, cbairman Clerk, Thomas Llanwarne. Hereford Attwood-Mathews Benjamin St. John esq. M.A., D.L. Pont- Treasurer, Edward Ballerby, National Provincial Bank of rilas court, Pontrilas R.S.O , Hereford 'Gillespie Maj.-Gen. Wm. Augustus, Trewyn, Abergavenny Medical Officers of Health, The Medical Officers for the Lee-Warner Robert Hy. esq. D.L. Tyberton court, Hereford Union Lewis Capt. Thomas Freke D.L. Abbeydore court, Pontrilas Sanitary Inspectors, Tom Foord Morgan, Pontrilas & Philip Lucas Edward Scudamore esq. D.L. Kentchurch court, Gwillim, Cwm Dulas Hereford National School (mixed), with master's residence, for 122 Murray-Aynsley Rev. John Cruger, Gt. Brampton, Hereford children; average attendance 65: it has an endowment Partridge William Bailey esq. The Grange, Bacton of £7 10S. yearly; Alfred Thomas, master Lewis Capt. Thomas Freke D.L., J.P. Evans George, farmer, Cwm farm Price Edwin, farmer, Kerry Hall farm Abbeydore court Farr James, farmer, Farm house Probert Richard, farmer, Lower bouse Phillipps Rev. Alfred A.K.C. The Farr James, jun.farmr. Woodhouse frm Probert Thomas, farmer, Longwood Rectory Francis Mary (Mrs.), frmr. Blackmore Ridgwav Joseph, farmer, Grange farm COMMERCIAL. HoddelJas.farmer, KingstonGrange frm Ross John, farmer, Bigsty farm Addis Andrew, farmer, Hollingwood Hughes George, blacksmith Ruck John, farmer, Kerrysgate Cwm Addis W. farmr. Quarrels, Green farm James John, Post office Sanbrook Henrv H. miller (water), IJadham George, farmer, Llanderwyn Jones Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Abbeydore mill IJubb Enoch, farmer, Lower Jury Parry James, farmer, Hill farm Thomas Alfred, schoolmaster & rate Cleeland Caroline (Mrs.), farmer, Powell John & George, farmers, Tan- collector, School house Cockyard house & Upper Jury Watkins John, farmer, Blackbush farm Dale James, farmer, :New Barns Powell Danzy, farmer, Jury cottage Williams Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Forty- Dyke John, farmer,Moorehampton park PowelIJames,farmer, Upper House farm acre farm .Edwards Thomas, gamekeeper to Capt. Preece Alfred & Albert, farmers, Williams Thos. shopkeeper & shoe makr Thomas Freke Lewis Duffryn .... ACONBURY is a parish and straggling village, on the county court district,rural deanery of , andarch­ road from Hereford to Ross, 2!milessouth-westfrom Holme deaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. John Lacey station on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester sectIon tbe Baptist is a small but ancient building of ston!', in the of the , 4~ miles south-east from Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and a Hereford and IQ north-west from Ross, inthe Southern divi- low western tower containing one bell; in the 'SOuth wall of sion of the county, in the upper division of the hundred of the church there still remains a ~, low side window" probablv Wormelow, Hereford union, petty Eessional division and Norman date, through which the leper would peer during