Description
Monnington-upon-Wye, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 3 miles SSW of Moorhampton station on the Hereford and Brecon branch of the M.R., and 6 SSW of Weobly. Post town, Hereford; money order and telegraph office, Portway. Acreage, 1023; population, 76. The manor belonged once to a son-in-law of Owen Glendower, and belongs now to the Comewall family. Monnington Court is supposed to have been the death-place of Owen Glendower; it was formerly the seat of the Monnington family, and is now a farmhouse. There is a long avenue called Monnington Walk. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £162 with residence. The church is ancient, and was rebuilt in the reign of Charles II.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
