Bredwardine, Herefordshire

Description
Bredwardine, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the river Wye, 2 miles NE of Dorstone station on the Golden Valley railway, 3 SW of Kinnersley station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 7 1/4 E by N of Hay. It has a post office under Letton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage of parish, 2262; population of the civil parish, 274; of the ecclesiastical, with Brobury, 340. Bredwardine Castle was the seat of the Bredwardine family, and Thomas Bredwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, " The Profound Doctor," was a native. Scarcely a trace remains of it. The Wye is crossed here by a bridge of six arches. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Brobury, in the diocese of Hereford; tithe rent commuted at £304 with residence. The church is Early Norman, consisting of chancel and nave, with a recent tower; it was restored in 1875 On the N side is some herringbone work, believed to be Saxon; there is some good carving above the doors; it contains a curious Norman font, and two ancient monuments. The one on south side, of alabaster, is supposed to represent Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, who married the daughter of Sir David Gaw, and fell with his father-in-law at the Battle of Agincourt.