Kimbolton, Herefordshire

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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West Midlands

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52°14′56″N 2°41′56″W / 52.249°N 2.699°W / 52.249; -2.699

Kimbolton is a village and parish in Herefordshire, England, around 3 miles (5 km) north east of Leominster and 15 miles (24 km) north of Hereford. The village is on the A4112 road, near its junction with the A49 road.^[1] The church is dedicated to St James, has 13th-century features and has two Norman windows in the chancel. The spire is shingled.^[2]

Bath Camp, a small Iron Age hill fort, lies on a ridge above the Whyte Brook about 1.5 miles (2 km) south east of the church.^[2]^[3]

The parish had a population in mid-2010 of 434,^[4] increasing to 472 at the 2011 Census.^[5]

The village has a pub, The Stockton Cross^[6] and a Primary School^[7] with a separate Early Years nursery on site. There is also a village hall.^[8]

Kimbolton Chapel (now Kimbolton St James church) is one of the rumoured burial sites for Owain Glyndwr.

References

^ "Google Maps".
^ ^a ^b Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. Yale University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0300096095.
^ Leominster and Bromyard (Explorer Maps) (A1 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN 9780319237595
^ "Mid-2010 Civil Parish SYOA population estimates for England and Wales" (xls). Office for National Statistics.
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 31 October 2015.
^ McGuire, Jim (19 August 2019). "The Stockton Cross | The Stockton Cross". thestocktoncross.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ "KImbolton St James CE Primary School". kimboltonstjames. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ Penny, Stewart. "Kimbolton Village Hall". Herefordshire Council. Retrieved 3 January 2021.