Knill, Herefordshire

Historical Description

Knill, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Lugg, at the boundary with Radnorshire, and on Offa's Dyke, 3½ miles SW by S of Presteign, and 4 NNW of Kington. Post town, Kington; money order and telegraph office, Presteign. Acreage, 819; population, 88. The manor has belonged for centuries to the Knill and Walsham families. Knill Court, a large Elizabethan mansion, is the chief residence. Th& living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £74 with residence. The church stands in the beautiful grounds of Knill Court, is ancient and ivy-clad, and has a tower, with a wooden spire; it was restored in 1876. Sir Samuel Romilly was buried here.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Knill from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Knill (St. Michael))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Knill are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

• Hereford Journal
• Hereford Times