Walford, Herefordshire

Description
Walford, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Wye, 3 miles SSW of Ross, with a station at Kerne Bridge on the Monmouth and Ross branch of the G.W.R., tind a post and money order office under Ross; telegraph office, Goodrich. The parish comprises 4340 acres; population of the civil parish, 1116; of the ecclesiastical, 730. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. Walford Court, now a farmhouse, was the seat of the Kyrle family, one of whom was a Parliamentary leader in the Civil War, and entertained Cromwell. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £182 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The church is Norman and Early English, and was restored in 1887. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Plymouth Brethren chapels, and a chapel of ease is at Howle Hill.