Wacton, Herefordshire

Bredenbury is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It is located 12.5 miles (20.1 km) northeast of Hereford. The village lies on the A44 road, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Bromyard and 8 miles (13 km) from Leominster.The parish had a population of 185 in the 2001 UK census, reducing to 169 at the 2011 census, and is grouped with Grendon Bishop and Wacton to form Bredenbury & District Group Parish Council for administrative purposes.The parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, is in the syle of 1300 but was built in the 1870s from a design by T H Wyatt. Land for the church was donated by William Barneby, of nearby Bredenbury Court. The Barneby family commissioned many of the interior furnishings for the new church. Wyatt also designed the first phase of Bredenbury Court in the Italianate style. An extension in 1902 was designed by Sir Guy Dawber.Bredenbury Primary School is much smaller than average, but was rated as outstanding by Ofsted in 2008.Bredenbury Court Barns is one of the more historic and iconic venues situated within Bredenbury, with the barns now being used for weddings.

Rowden Mill railway station was a railway station located on the Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway in England.

Thornbury is a village in Herefordshire, England, 5.5 km (3.4 mi) north of the town of Bromyard. The population of the village as taken at the 2011 census was 197. The village has one church. To the north of Thornbury is Thornbury Court. Two tributaries of the River Frome surround the village.

Fencote railway station was a railway station on the Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway in Hatfield and Newhampton, Herefordshire, England.

Grendon Bishop is a civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England.

Hatfield and Newhampton is a civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, and is 11 miles (18 km) north from the city and county town of Hereford. The closest large town is Leominster 4 miles (6 km) to the west. The parish includes the small village of Hatfield, the former extra-parochial liberty of New Hampton, the site of former abbey lands of Fencote, the preserved Fencote railway station, and the Grade II* listed 11th-century Church of St Leonard.

Hampton Charles is a dispersed hamlet and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and approximately 5 miles (8 km) north-west from Bromyard. The Herefordshire parish of Hatfield and Newhampton is at the south-west and Thornbury at the south-east; the Worcestershire parish of Bockleton is at the north-west, Kyre at the north, and Stoke Bliss at the north-east. In the 1870s Hampton Charles was a hamlet in the civil parish of Bockleton, with a population of 87 in 20 houses.

Hatfield is a village in the Hatfield and Newhampton civil parish of Herefordshire, England. Nearby settlements include the village of Bockleton, and the towns of Tenbury Wells, Bromyard and Leominster. The city and county town of Hereford is 14 mi (23 km) to the south-southwest. The Herefordshire Trail runs through the village. St Leonard's, the local church, is one of the oldest in Herefordshire; a church here was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. St Leonard's includes 13th and 14th-century bells and a late Saxon tub font. There is also a blocked late Saxon north doorway.There is a caravan site in the village.

Edwyn Ralph or Edvin Ralph is a village and civil parish 14 miles (23 km) north east of Hereford, in the county of Herefordshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 192. The parish touches Bromyard and Winslow, Collington, Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe, Norton, Thornbury and Wacton. Edwyn Ralph shares a parish council with Collington and Thornbury called "Thornbury Group Parish Council".

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".

Bockleton is a small village and civil parish (with a shared parish council with neighbouring Stoke Bliss and Kyre) in the Malvern Hills district of Worcestershire, England, five miles (8 km) south of Tenbury Wells. According to the 2021 census it had a population of 198. It is close to the Herefordshire border and is about nine miles (14 km) east of Leominster in Herefordshire.

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.