Description
Brinsop, a parish in Herefordshire, 1 1/2 mile N of Credenhill station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 5 1/2 miles NW of Hereford, which is the post town. Acreage, 1413; population, 120. Portions only of the 14th century manor house are incorporated into a more modern dwelling. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is Early English, and contains monuments to the Dansey family, and a memorial window to the poet Wordsworth. It was restored in 1867.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
