Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPE-UNDER-DINMORE

HOPE-UNDER-DINMORE, a village and a parish in Leominster district, Hereford. The village stands under Dinmore Hill, near the river Lug, and near the Dinmore station of the Hereford and Shrewsbury railway, 4¼ miles S by E of Leominster. -The parish is sometimes called Hope-Hampton; and its post town is Leominster. Acres, 3, 796. Real property, £3, 779. Pop., 662. Houses, 134. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Hampton Court, belongs to John Arkwright, Esq. See Hampton Court. A preceptory of Knights Templars was on Dinmore Hill, and has left some vestiges. A tunnel of the Hereford and Shrewsbury railway, 1, 100 yards long, goes through Dinmore Hill. There are petrifying springs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £133 * Patron, John H. Arkwright, Esq. The church is modern, with a tower; and contains tombs of the Coningsbys. There are a national school, a free school, and charities £4.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hope under Dinmore Ch/CP       Leominster RegD/PLU       Herefordshire AncC
Place: Hope under Dinmore

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