Hope under Dinmore, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Hope-under-Dinmore, a village and a parish in Herefordshire. The village stands under Dinmore Hill, near the river Lugg, and near Dinmore station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, 4 miles S by E of Leominster. Post town, Leominster. The parish is sometimes called Hope Hampton. Acreage, 3854; population, 514. The manor belongs to the Arkwright family, whose seat is HAMPTON COURT (which see). A preceptory of Knights Templars was on Dinmore Hill, and has left some vestiges. A tunnel of the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, 1300 yards long, goes through Dinmore Hill. There are petrifying springs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £98 with residence. Patron, the Lord of the Manor. The church is ancient, and contains a Norman font and tombs of the Coningsbys.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Hope-Under-Dinmore St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Wolphy | |
| Poor Law union | Leominster |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hope under Dinmore from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hope-Under-Dinmore (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hope under Dinmore 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: