Pencoyd (St. Denis)

PENCOYD (St. Denis), a parish, in the union of Ross, Upper division of the hundred of Wormelow, county of Hereford, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Ross; containing 225 inhabitants. It comprises 860 acres, and is intersected by the road from Hereford to Ross; the soil is productive, and inferior sandstone is obtained. The living is a perpetual curacy, united to that of Marstow, and endowed with the vicarial tithes, the rectorial being in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford: there are about 14 acres of rectorial glebe.