Stoke Lacy

Much Cowarne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire, located off the A417 about 16 miles from Hereford and 10 miles from its post town of Bromyard.

Moreton Jeffries Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Moreton Jeffries, some 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Hereford, Herefordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

Moreton Jeffries (or Moreton Jefferies) is a hamlet in the English county of Herefordshire. It is situated off the A465 between Stoke Lacy and Burley Gate, approximately 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north-east of Hereford. It has a medieval church, which has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. In the Domesday Book, it was listed as being in the Radlow Hundred. Henry 'Harry' Morgan, founder of the Morgan Motor Company, was born in Moreton Jeffries Rectory in 1881. There are timber merchants in the hamlet.

Little Cowarne is a village and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, and is 9 miles (14 km) north-east from the city and county town of Hereford. The closest town is the market town of Bromyard, 4 miles (6 km) to the north-east.

Burley Gate is a hamlet in Herefordshire, England. It is north-east from the junction between the A465 road and the A417 road. The hamlet is divided between two civil parishes: Much Cowarne in the east, and Ocle Pychard in the west, with the parish of Moreton Jeffries abutted at the north. A primary school is in the western part of Burley Gate, and a Tudor house is at the centre.

Pencombe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Pencombe with Grendon Warren, in Herefordshire, England. The village is 3.5 miles (6 km) south-west of Bromyard (the local market town with schools and a hospital) and about 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Hereford, in each case reached by minor roads. A parish hall caters for community events and there are part time post office services provided every Tuesday (midday - 1pm) by a mobile unit. The village public house is the Wheelwright Arms. Parish population in 2017 was estimated to be 336.St John's Church is constructed in the Norman style of soft local red sandstone, and replaces a medieval building on the same site. In 2009 a female parish priest was appointed. Across the road is the former parish hall, opened in the 1890s, now a private dwelling. Other village buildings include Pencombe Court and Pencombe Church of England Primary School, both adjacent to the church. Pencombe Hall, a private residential care home to the south of the village, with coach house, now a private dwelling, were built by John Arkwright, of Hampton Court 6 miles (10 km) to the east, a descendant of Richard Arkwright. Pencombe has a village cricket team, with no home ground, which plays Sunday friendly away games. Trade directory extract for Pencombe from 1863: Pencombe is a parish and village, 4 miles (6.4 km) west from Bromyard (its post town), 6 west from Dinmore Railway Station, and 11 from Hereford, in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union and county court district, Frome deanery, and Hereford archdeaconry and bishopric. The church is a very ancient and remarkable building in the Norman style; the tower (of stone) was rebuilt in 1840, and contains 3 bells; it has nave, a chancel, apse, porch, an ancient font, and three modern tablets. The register dates from 1565. The living is a rectory, worth £490 yearly, with residence and 119 acres (0.48 km2) of glebe land, in the gift of John H. Arkwright, Esq., and held by the Rev. George Arkwright, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford. There is a Sunday and Day school for boys and girls, supported by the rector. The Rectory House is very pleasantly situated, half a mile from the church. The population in 1861 was 415; the acreage is 3,955. The soil is clayey; the subsoil partly stone. John H. Arkwright, Esq., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats, and clover. A court leet is held at the Court-house once in three years; and by an ancient custom the lord of the manor claims a pair of gilt spurs when a mayor of Hereford dies while in office. The New Zealand zoologist Charles Chilton was born in Pencombe in 1860. In 1891 the parish had a population of 268. On 30 September 1895 the parish was abolished and merged with Grendon Warren to form "Pencombe with Grendon Warren".

Ocle Pychard is a hamlet and parish near Burley Gate, in Herefordshire, England, 3.25 miles (5.23 km) northwest of Stoke Edith, 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest from Bromyard, and about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Hereford. The parish of Stretton Grandison neighbours Ocle Pychard to the east, while that of Westhide is to the south. Once a larger settlement, its population was 187 in 1801, 236 in 1831, 224 in 1832, and 299 in 1861.

Ullingswick is a small village in Herefordshire, England located about 6 miles (9.7 km) south west of Bromyard, 9 miles (14 km) north east of Hereford and 10 miles south east of Leominster. The population of the village at the 2011 census was 259.It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ullingwic. The name may derive from "Ulla ingas wic", where Ulla was the name of an Anglo-Saxon chief, ingas is Anglo-Saxon for "followers of", and wic, wick or wich is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning abode or dwelling place, borrowed from the Latin vicus meaning village. Thus meaning "the dwelling of the followers of Ulla". Other records of the name include 1086 Ullingwic, Dom. 1127 Olingewiche, A.C. 1186 Ullyngwyk, Glos. Cart. 1192 Ullingewike, Glos. Cart. no date Wylyngwyche, Willingswyke, Glos. Cart. 1276 Ullingwike, Ep. Reg. 1291 Ullingwyke, Tax. Eccles. 1341 Ullongewyk, Non. Inq.With the same source citing the meaning of the name as "Wic of the sons of Willa". The village church, St Luke's, has a Norman nave, 13th century chancel, and Victorian porch and bell tower. It is built in a Gothic style, but was extensively restored in 1863 at a cost of £800 and reroofed in 1912. A lych gate was erected in 1921 at the west entrance to the churchyard, as a War Memorial. The font stem dates from the 13th Century, and font bowl from the 15th Century. Of note is a 16th Century memorial painting on the south wall, to John Hill (d.1590), owner of the nearby Lower Court. The inscription reads, ""Here lyeth the body of John Hill gentleman heire to John Hill gent of the Nether courts who marryed the eldest daughter one of the co-heires of Hugh Brooke esquyer of Lounge Ashton (Long Ashton) in ye county of Somerset: lyneally descendinge from the house of ye Lord Cobham & had by her three sonns & two daughters: these armes came by hir and hee departed this lyffe the thirde daye of February in the XXXXlll yere of the raigne of oure soveraigne lady Quene Elizabeth Anno Domi 1590 upon whom the Lorde hathe mercy". The monument painted on stone shows John lying on top of a tomb chest between kneeling figures labelled (from left to right): "Francis thir yovnger", "John thir eldest sonne", "Elisabethe his wife" and "Jane thir daughter". On the floor are two shrouded infants labelled John and Jane. Elizabeth was one of four co-heiress daughters of Hugh Brooke (d.1588), grand daughter of Thomas Brooke (d.1537) and Joan (d.1538) daughter of Sir John Speke of Whitelackington In 1862 the village was the scene of the rape and murder of 16-year old Mary Corbett, on an errand to buy candles on a stormy October evening. The murderer, William Hope, a labourer and known criminal from the village was convicted and hanged in Hereford, on 15 April 1863, the first hanging there for thirty years. Other notable crimes in Ullingswick from the Victorian era included an offence under the Turnpike Act in 1854, a bolting horse in 1867, an attempted suicide in 1899 and the death of a drunkard in 1901.The village economy is almost exclusively agricultural. The village school and village post office no longer exist. The public house in the village was the Three Crowns Inn. now closed. The local primary school is at Burley Gate and the local secondary school is the Queen Elizabeth High School in Bromyard. Ullingswick is also the scene of two books by Ross Heaven, The Sin Eater's Last Confessions and Walking With The Sin Eater: A Celtic Pilgrimage On The Dragon Path

Pencombe with Grendon Warren is a civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England. The parish was created in 1895 from the parishes of Pencombe and Grendon Warren, its only nucleated settlement being the village of Pencombe.

Eggleton (or Egleton) is a small civil parish in Herefordshire, England. Its main centres of population are Lower Eggleton and Upper Eggleton. The parish is centred on the A4103 road between the cities of Hereford 8 miles (13 km) to the south-west and Worcester 15 miles (24 km) to the north-east. The parish shares Stretton Grandison Group Parish Council with the nearby parishes of Stretton Grandison, Castle Frome and Canon Frome.

Queen Elizabeth High School is a high school with academy status situated in Herefordshire, on the outskirts of Bromyard. The school meets the educational needs of the children in the area, with feeder primary schools including Burley Gate Primary School, St Peters Primary School, Brockhamton Primary School, Bredenbury Primary School. The governing board recently changed the name back to Queen Elizabeth High School from Queen Elizabeth Humanities College.

Westhide is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, 5+1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) north-east of Hereford. The parish had a population of 79 in the 2001 UK Census and is grouped with Preston Wynne and Withington to form Withington Group Parish Council for administrative purposes. The village lies on hilly farmland and to the south is Shucknall Hill.The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and has a large but short 12th-century tower. In the churchyard are the remains of a medieval preaching cross now topped by an 18th-century sundial. It went through a major restoration during the nineteenth century by architect Thomas Blashill, FRIBA, which included an addition of a south-facing porch.The course of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal runs just north of the village.