Kimbolton, Herefordshire

Kimbolton

St James the Great Church, Kimbolton
Kimbolton
Kimbolton shown within Herefordshire
Population 472 
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Leominster
Postcode district HR6
Dialling code 01568
Police West Mercia
Fire Hereford and Worcester
Ambulance West Midlands
EU Parliament West Midlands
UK Parliament

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]

References

  1. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=kimbolton,+herefordshire&ie=UTF-8&ei=j-UsUMPdE8TmtQb1hIHIAg&ved=0CFMQ_AUoAg
  2. 1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). The Buildings of England - Herefordshire. Yale University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-0300096095.
  3. Leominster and Bromyard (Explorer Maps) (A1 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2006, ISBN 9780319237595
  4. "Mid-2010 Civil Parish SYOA population estimates for England and Wales" (xls). Office for National Statistics.
  5. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 31 October 2015.


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