Hentland

Hentland
St Dubricius' Church, Hentland
Hentland Location within Herefordshire
Population	436 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SO542265
Civil parish	Hentland
Unitary authority	Herefordshire
Ceremonial county	Herefordshire
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ross-on-Wye
Postcode district	HR9
Post town	Hereford
Postcode district	HR2
Dialling code	01989 01432
Police	West Mercia
Fire	Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance	West Midlands
UK Parliament	Hereford and South Herefordshire

Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, England.

The small hamlet settlement of Hentland at the east of the parish contains the parish church of St Dubricius. The civil parish, bounded on its eastern side by the River Wye, also includes 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.

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

Hentland is 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, and is a place for Saint Dubricius' pilgrimage.

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.

Hall Court Farm is a Grade II listed half timbered house at Kynaston dating from the early 1600s.

Further reading

• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). Herefordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 144.

External links

• The Parish Churches of Hentland & Hoarwithy
• Church and Community Website
• Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley - Tresseck & Altbough, Hentland