Monkland (All Saints)

MONKLAND (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Leominster, hundred of Stretford, county of Hereford, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Leominster; containing 184 inhabitants. This parish, which is bounded by the river Arrow, comprises by computation 1032 acres; the soil is a stiff clay on the higher portions, but lighter and richer in the lower parts. The road from Leominster to Hay passes through. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £11. 0. 9., and in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor: the tithes have been commuted for £250, and the glebe comprises 3 acres. The church, with the manor, was given by Ralph Tony in the time of William Rufus to the abbey of Conches, in Normandy, when a cell of Benedictine monks was established here, the possessions of which, at the suppression, were granted to the Dean and Canons of Windsor.