Weonard's, St

WEONARD'S, ST., a parish, in the union of Ross, Lower division of the hundred of Wormelow, county of Hereford, 7¼ miles (W.by N.) from Ross; containing 644 inhabitants. This place was plundered by the Scottish troopers during the siege of Hereford, in the time of the parliamentary war; and a spot is still called Scot's Brook, where a Scottish soldier, who was taking some bread out of an oven, was killed by the woman of the cottage. The parish comprises 4536a. 3r. lp., of which the greater portion is arable land: there are some quarries of building and flag stone. The living is annexed, with the livings of Little Dewchurch, Hentland, and Llangarran, to the vicarage of Lugwardine: the great tithes have been commuted for £456, and the vicarial for £209. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower. Here are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. Treago, an estate in the parish, has belonged to the family of Mynors ever since the Conquest; the mansion is of high antiquity, and of very singular architecture.