Orcop, Herefordshire

Description
Orcop, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Wye, 3 miles NW of the river Monnow, at the boundary with Monmouthshire, 4 1/2 E of Pontrilas station on the G.W.R., and 8 1/2 W by N of Ross, and is a scattered place. It has a post office under Tram Inn (R.S.O.); money order office, St Weonards; telegraph office, Pontrilas. The parish comprises 2465 acres; population, 474. There is a parish council consisting of six members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford ; net value, £120. The church shows peculiar and interesting features; was partly restored, partly rebuilt in 1861; has a massive, richly-moulded, oaken roof; has also a unique, three-staged, heavy, oaken tower, reconstructed after the model of a previous old tower; and contains a carved stone pulpit. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.