Burghill

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Coordinates: 52°06′00″N 2°46′00″W / 52.1°N 2.7666°W / 52.1; -2.7666
Burghill

St Mary the Virgin Church, Burghill
Burghill

 Burghill shown within Herefordshire
OS grid reference SO474449
    - London  140m 
Civil parish Burghill
Unitary authority Herefordshire
Ceremonial county Herefordshire
Region West Midlands
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HEREFORD
Postcode district HR4
Dialling code 01432
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament North Herefordshire
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Burghill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, north-west of Hereford. The parish includes the villages of Burghill, Tillington, Portway and Eltons Marsh.

The village of Burghill has a Norman church, St Mary the Virgin, and a village hall, the Simpson Hall, that has been modernised. There is a golf club, Burghill Valley Golf Club, in the heart of the village. The whole area is surrounded by apple and pear orchards and is a centre for tourism. The local pub is the Bell Inn, situated between Burghill and Tillington. The vicar at the church is the Rev. Preb. Jimmy Morrison.

It has been suggested that Burghill may have been the site of the first castle to have been built in England. It would have been built before the Norman conquest, about the year 1051, by Normans in the service of Osbern Pentecost, a follower of Ralph de Mantes and supporter of Edward the Confessor.[1][2]

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