Hentland

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Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located five miles north-west of Ross-on-Wye.

Hentland itself is very small and often missed off maps of the area. The parish, bounded on its eastern side by the River Wye, also includes the village of St Owen's Cross and the hamlets of Gillow, Kynaston, Little Pengethley, Llanfrother and Red Rail. The area is mostly farmland, with a small proportion woodland. The soil consists of red loam, with a subsoil of rock and clay. Hentland is best known as the site of a very early Welsh monastery, built by Saint Dubricius in the 6th century. It probably stood in the field just to the south of the present parish church, which is still a place of pilgrimage for Dubricius' modern devotees. The name is Welsh, Hên-llan, meaning 'old church-enclosure'. Gillow Manor is a fine 14th century manor house with part of its old moat still surviving. In medieval times, it was one of the homes of the great Pembridge family of Herefordshire.