Knill, Herefordshire - Kelly's Directory, 1929

Extract from Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929

KNILL.

KNILL is a parish on the borders of Radnorshire, 5 miles north from Kington Station and 3½ south from Presteign (Radnor) terminal station on the Leominster and Kington branch of the Great Western Railway and 26 north-west from Hereford, in the Leominster division of the county, Wigmore hundred, Kington union and petty Sessional division, Presteign county court district, rural deanery of Kington and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The neighbourhood is very picturesque and the Hindwell Brook runs through the parish. The church of St. Michael is an ancient building of stone, partly Norman and Saxon, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: here was buried Sir Samuel Romilly kt. Solicitor-general 1806-7, who died 2 NOV 1818: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876, at a cost of about £1,000: three stained windows have been inserted, and in 1883 a pulpit of carved oak was erected by Miss Bell, of Northumberland, in memory of the Rev. Prebendary Charles Walsham M.A. d. 18 JAN 1882: there is a tablet on the north wall commemorating our victory in the Great War, 1914-18. The register dates from the year 1585. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £60, including 9¾ acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir John Scarlett Walsham bart. And held since 1926 by the Rev. Chas. Alfd. Markham Evans M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Old Radnor. The Rectory House was restored and enlarged in 1873 and occupied for the first time, after a lapse of nearly 100 years, by the Rev. H. T. Moggridge, rector 1873-82. Knill Court, a handsome Elizabethan mansion, is the property and residence of Capt. John Stuart Knill. The soil is loamy; subsoil, stony. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips, and a considerable quantity of pasture. The area is 812 acres of land and 7 of water the population in 1921 was 54.

   Letters through Kington. Walton, Radnorshire, is the nearest T. office.

Evans Rev. Reuben (ret.), The Rectory	Knill Capt. John Stuart, Knill Court
COMMERCIAL
Marked thus ° farm 150 acres or over.
° Davies David Wm. Farmer, Knill farm

[Transcribed by Richard Lane in January 2003
from a copy of Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire, 1929 in Hereford Central Library]