Hope under Dinmore

Hope under Dinmore is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The village is on the A49 road, 4 miles (6 km) south of Leominster and 9 miles (14 km) north of Hereford, and on the Welsh Marches railway line. The railway passes under Dinmore Hill through the split-level 1,051-yard (961 m) long Dinmore Tunnel.[1] Dinmore railway station closed in 1958, but the line remains open.[2] The church has a tower and is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.[3]

Hope under Dinmore

Hope under Dinmore - the old village
Hope under Dinmore
Location within Herefordshire
Population412 
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLeominster
Postcode districtHR6
Dialling code01568
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament

The parish had a population in mid-2010 of 343,[4] increasing to 412 at the 2011 Census.[5][3]

The 15th-century Hampton Court Castle lies east of the village. It was built in 1472 by Sir Rowland Lenthall who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt, taking so many prisoners that he was able to fund the completion of the building.[3] It was later the ancestral home of the Earl Coningsby,[6] and in the nineteenth century, passed into the hands of Richard Arkwright.[3]

The River Lugg crossed by the Welsh Marches Line near Dinmore railway station.

Dinmore Manor, in a valley south-west of the hill, was founded as a preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.[7] The ruins are still visible on the hillside above the village.[3] It is the private residence of mobile phone tycoon Martin Dawes and no longer open to the general public.[8]

Winsley House, in the west of the parish, is a Grade II listed 14th-century farmhouse with later additions.[9]

Most of the population of the village is centred in the housing estate called Cherrybrook Close, but the village extends up two roads, one of which leads to Westhope Common. The industrial and business park of Marlbrook is within the north-east of the parish, and partly in the neighbouring parish of Newton. This is where the Cadbury company has a factory that processes 180 million litres of fresh milk, 56,000 tonnes of sugar and 13,000 tonnes of cocoa liquor each year to produce milk chocolate crumb for the manufacture of milk chocolate.[10]

References
  1. Leominster and Bromyard (Explorer Maps) (A1 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN 9780319237595
  2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 79. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Faccombe to Myton-upon-Swale. 1868. pp. 292–293.
  4. "Mid-2010 Civil Parish SYOA population estimates for England and Wales" (xls). Office for National Statistics.
  5. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 30 October 2015.
  6. "Hampton Court" (PDF).
  7. Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300096095.
  8. Kay, Richard (3 October 2008). "£1m battle of Charles' pal". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved 25 September 2009.
  9. Historic England. "Winsley House (1082031)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  10. "Cadbury recall after health fears". BBC News. 23 June 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

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