Eardisland, Herefordshire

Description
Eardisland, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Arrow, near Watling Street, 2 miles SW of Kingsland station on the G.W.R., and 5 W of Leominster. The village contains some half-timbered houses dating from the 14th century, and has a reading-room and library. It has a post office under Pembridge (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Pembridge. Acreage, 3656; population of the civil parish, 500 ; of the ecclesiastical, 684. Burton Court is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £268. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church, originally Early English, has portions of a later period, and was restored in 1864. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A moated mound at the Court House, and a dovecote at the Porch House are objects of great interest.