DIRECTORY.] HEREFORDSHIRE. HOW CAPLE. 117 rural deanery of Leominster and archdeaconry and diocese style, surround a quadrangular court, which has a of Het·eford. There is excellent fishing in the river Lugg. grand entrance tower in the centre of the north front The church of St. :Mary the Virgin IS an ancient building and a smaller tower at each extremity; there is also a of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, chapel, which still retains traces of its original design; nave, north transept, north porch and an embattled many alterations and additions have been made to the tower at the west end containing 3 bells: in the chancel huuse; the river Lugg meanders through the grounds ; is a handsome marble monument to the Coningsby the park of 140 acres, which used to be 8 miles in family, by Roubiliac, but without inscription: the circumference, has now been enclosed, and is well northern transept was added in 1866 by the Arkwright stocked with deer. Winsley House, now occupied as a family to the memory of John Arkwright esq. of Hamp­ farm, formerly belonged to Rowland de Wyndsley, by ton Court, in this parish, d. 27 Feb. 1858: on the wall the marriage of whose daughter it was conveyed to Ber­ of the transept is a brass to :Mrs. Arkwright, d. 19 July, rington de Lacy in the reign of Edward Ill. The arms 1869, and there is another to Henry Arkwright, fourth of Wyndsley and the Latin inscription "Per Hoc Signum son of John A.rkwright, who was lost in an avalanche Vinces," appears on one of the beams of the house. on Mont Blanc 13 Oct. 1866, and whose remains, being Dinmore Hill, at the northern end of which the church discovered 30 years after, were buried Aug. 3ISt, 1897, is erected, is a richly wooded eminence, from which at Chamounix: there is a memorial window to Sophia delightful views are obtained; the road from Leominster Phillips, d. 1874, another to the Rev. William Hindes to Hereford crosse-s it at a distance of about 1 mile Wyatt, canon of Lincoln, d. 1875, and one, placed in from the village and the Shrewsbury and Hereford rail­ 1899, to Joseph Yates, for over 51 years secretary and way passes through the hill by means of a tunnel treasurer of the Hampton Friendly Society : a new upwards of 1,3oo yards long; an additional tunnel was organ was provided in 1900 as a memorial to the late completed in 1894· Mrs. Burrell, who is lady of the J. H. Arkwright esq. d. 1905: the church was restored manor, and Messr~. John and S. H. Wood are the chief in 1879, at a cost of £I,zoo, by Mr. H. Welsh, of landowners. The soil is clayey ; subsoil, clay with Hereford. from designs by Mr. F. R. Kempson, of limestone. The chief crops are wheat, beans, roots, Hereford. and the chancel was rebuilt in 1896 by the hops and apples and pears, with a quantity of grass. late J. H. Arkwright esq. at a cost of £r,ooo: there The area is 3,835 acres of land and 19 of water; rate­ are sittings for 300 persons. The register dates from able value, £5,223 ; population in 19II, 450. the year 1701. The living is a vicarage, net yearly valuE' Parish Clerk, John Wood. £200, including 45 acres of glebe lmd house, in the gi't of Mrs. Burrell, of Hampton Court, and held since Post, M. 0. & T. Office. John Wood, sub-postmaster. 1913 by the Rev. Frederick William Carlton M.A. of Letters arrive through Lec.minster at 7 a.m. & 3.:20 Trinity College, Oxford, who is also vicar of Ford. p.m.; sundays, 8.30 a.m. (callers only); dispatched There is a small Primitive :Methodist chapel at Upper at 7.15 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sundays, 9.15 a.m Hill, erected in 1894· A charity of £z yearly value, Upper Hill is a hamlet 3 miles west. arising from money left by will, dated Jan. 19, 1713, b~· Post Office, Upper Hill. James Parry, sub-postmaster. Mr. Humphrey :Mayo, is now distributed in bread; he also left £4 yearly for the vicar. Almshouses, styled Letters arrive through Leominster at 7-45 a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. week the "Hampton Court Home," were built by the late days only. Hope-under-Dinmore, 3 miles distant, is J. H. A.rkwright esq. and endowed by the late Mr~. the nearest money order & telegraph office John A.rkwright, for six aged workmen who have been employed on the estate; each occupier is allowed a Clerk to Parish Council & Assistant Overseer, Victor weekly sum for maintenance. In the township are som<> Colley, Etnam street, Leominster petrifving spring-s, and stone quarries for local purposes. The Hampton Friendly Society, established in 1845 for Public Elementary School!. the. working classes of the parishes of Hope, Bodenham, Hope (mixed), rebuilt & enlarged with master's house Humber and Pencombe, has now (1913) 210 member~. in 1869, for 120 children; average attendance, 76; The reading room was re-established in 1888; J. S. William Noakes, master; :Miss Fanny Nicholson, Arkwright esq. is president. Hampton Court, in this mistress parish, now the property and residence of Mrs. Burrell, Upper Hill (mixed), built with master's house in 1855• was built under the immediate auspices of King Henry & enlarged in 1s94 at a oost of £ 300, for 120 children; IV. by his favourite yeoman of the robes, Sir Rowland average -attendance, 66; William Urry, master; Miss Lenthall, who married a kinswoman of that monarch, Marion Urry, mistress. This school, to which a chan- and received this estate as a marriage portion with his eel was added & opened Sept. 26th, 189o, by the wife; the mansion is a magnificent structure, stand- Bishop of Hereford, is used for services on sundays ing on a spacious lawn and protected on the north-eai't by an eminence covered with luxuriant fo-liage; th" Carriers to Leominster.-Edwin Garrett, fri.; from buildings, partly castellated and otherwise in the Gothic Upper Hill, on fri. Charles Pole HOPE-UNDER-DINMORE. Hampton Friendly Society (William I UPPER HILL. N k d * t 1 dd Noakes, sec) I Marston William H. Gattertop ( ames mar e pos a a ress, Morgan Geo. T. farmer, Brownsland 1 Stoke Prior, Leominster.) M organ Thomas, farmer, Broomwell COMMERCIAL. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. (postal address, Westhope,Hereford) Bemon A.Ibert, gardener to W. H. Burrell Mrs. Hampton court Nash John, head forester to iMrs. Marston esq. Gattertop Burrell Capt. William Matthew, Burr ell Griffiths John, carpenter Hampton court Poole Benjamin, head gardener to Harris William, farmer & haulier Carlton Rev. Frederick William M.A. Mrs. Burrell Law Henry, farmer, The Lodge (vicar, & vicar of Ford), Vicarage IRoherts Thomas, agent to Mrs. Law John, farmer & hop grwr. Yoke Burrell, Green farm Law John Francis, farmer & hop Village Reading Room (J. S. Ark- grower, Pigeon house COMMERCIAL. wright esq. prPs.; Jn. Weaver, sec) Matthews Charles, gamekeeper toW. Atkins Clara (Mrs.), shopkeeper Whiteman John Bertie, farmer, Bury H. :Marston esq. Gattertop .Atkins J oseph, butcher, Dinmore hill *Whyard Frederick, head gamekeeper I Millichap John, farmer & hop Beaumont Moses, farmer, Winsley pk to Mrs. Burrell, Rose cottage, grower, Middle hill & farm bailiff Garrett Edwin, carrier, Dinmore hill Hampton park to :Messrs. Joseph M. & John B. Goodwin Saml. jun. frmr. Purvin fm Wood Arthur Hy. farmer,Woodmanton Parry, Lower hill Hall William, Royal Oak inn Wood John, carpenter & parish clerk, I ::'.fillichap Waiter, blacksmith Hampton Court Estate Office (Thos. Post office Nelmes William Thos. Red Lion P.H Roberts, agent) Poles Charles, shopkeeper HOW CAPLE is a parish, the houses of which are tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells: the north scattered, adjoining the parishes of Foy and Brockhamp· porch bears the date 1693, and the initials of Sir ton, situated on a gentle slope overlooking the river Wye, William Gregory, formerly lord of the manor of this 2 miles east from Fawley station on the Hereford, Boss parish, and who resto-red the church in 1889 at a cost and Gloucester railway, 5 north-west from Boss and ro of £1,336: there are 290 sittings. The register dates south-east from Hereford, in the Southern division of from the year 1667. The living is a rectory, with that the county, hundred of Greytree, Boss union, county coun of Sollers Hope annexed, joint net yearly value £240, district and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Ross including 44 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of Lennox Bertram Lee esq. J .P. and held since 1909 of St. A.ndrew is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular by the Rev. Arthur George Melville Rushton M.A. of and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south Trinity College, Cambridge. How Caple Court is the transept, north porch and a massive embattled western residence of Lennox Bertram Lee esq. J.P. who ia lord .