Description
Clehonger, a village, a township, and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 4 miles SW of Hereford, with a post office under Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Hereford. The parish comprises 2152 acres; population of civil parish, 430; of ecclesiastical, 413. Belmont is the seat of the lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford ; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church is late Early English, but retains much Norman work, and contains an effigy of Sir William Pembridge, one of the first Knights of the Garter, and other monuments. A Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral was erected here in 1856.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
