Mordiford, Herefordshire

Description
Mordiford, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on the river Lugg, near its influx to the Wye, and under Backbury Hill, 2 miles NNE of Holme Lacy station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/4 ESE of Hereford. It has a post office under Hereford; money order office, Fownhope; telegraph office, Hoime Lacy railway station. There is a bridge of seven arches over the Lugg. The parish contains also the hamlets of Checkley, Froome, and Sufton. Acreage, 1515 ; population, 482. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The rocks are interesting to geologists, form outlying ridges of the great Silurian valley of elevation.; and include much limestone very rich in fossils. Sufton Court, the seat of the Hereford family, was built in 1790. Old Sufton, now a farmhouse, is a good specimen of a 15th century timber house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; value, £230 with residence. The church has Norman portions; is chiefly Early English; has a transept rebuilt in 1852, and a tower rebuilt in 1814; was restored in 1869, when a N aisle was added; and contains a piscina, an ancient monument, an effigies with a very ancient inscription, some memorial windows, and a memorial of a very remarkable storm which passed over the village in 1811. In the churchyard is the shaft of an ancient stone cross, and an octagonal font of the 17th century. There is a mission church at Checkley.