How Caple, Herefordshire

Description
How Caple, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands near the river Wye, 2 1/2 miles ENE of Fawley station on the Hereford, Eoss, and Gloucester branch of the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 NNE of Eoss, and has a post and telegraph office under Eoss; money order office, Crowbill. The parish comprises 1015 acres; population of the civil parish, 89;, of the ecclesiastical district, 180. How Caple Court was the chief residence of the Capel family from the 12th to the 17th century, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Sellers Hope, in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £299. The church is cruciform, was rebuilt about 1690 by Sir William Gregory, and contains several monuments to him and other members of the family. It was restored in 1889.