Pembridge

Pembridge is a village and civil parish in the Arrow valley in Herefordshire, England. The village is on the A44 road about 6 miles (10 km) east of Kington and 7 miles (11 km) west of Leominster. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Bearwood, Lower Bearwood, Lower Broxwood, Marston, Moorcot and Weston. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 1,056.^[1]

Pembridge is the major part of the electoral ward of Pembridge and Lyonshall with Titley. The 2011 Census recorded the ward's population as 3,124.^[2]

The toponym "Pembridge" may be derived from the WelshPen-y-Bont, anglicised to its current spelling.^[3] A more likely origin of the name Pembridge is that it is derived from the Old English Penebrug(g)e, which probably meant "Pena's bridge".^[4]

In 1239, Pembridge was granted a royal charter to hold a market and two fairs: the Cowslip Fair held each May and the Woodcock Fair held each November. In the Middle Ages they were important events for agricultural labourers across the county to seek work from landowners.

The village is noted for its historic timber-framed buildings. It is promoted to visitors as "the heart of the Black and White Village Trail".^[5]

In West Street, Swan House and School View are two parts of a single building. It was built in the 14th century a hall house, but had an intermediate floor inserted late in the 16th or early in the 17th century. It was further altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[6] Also in West Street, Forsythia and West Leigh are two parts of another former hall house. It was built in the 14th or 15th century, and altered in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[7]

In the Market Place, the core of the Post Office and Stores is another 14th-century house. It was remodelled in the 17th and late 19th centuries and is a Grade II* listed building.^[8] Also in Market Place is the Market Hall. This timber-framed building, which has been dated by dendrochronology to c.1520, is not actually a market hall, but merely a covered market. Eight oak pillars support a roof tiled with stone slates. These pillars are supported on unworked stone bases except for one, which stands on the remains of the medieval cross base. It is a Grade II* listed building.^[9][10][11]

In East Street is the former post office. It is a 15th-century house altered in the 17th and 19th centuries.^[12]

Pembridge had two sets of almshouses, each divided into six tenements. Duppa's Almshouses in Bridge Street were endowed by Jeffrey Duppa and founded in 1661. They were augmented by his son Brian Duppa,^[13] a Royalist who was Bishop of Winchester from 1660 until his death in 1662. Trafford's Almshouses in East Street were endowed by the Rev Dr Thomas Trafford, DD, and built in 1686.^[14]

Elsewhere in the parish, Clear Brook is a mainly 17th-century house with a 16th-century rear wing.^[15] The Court of Noke is an 18th-century country house, and the most notable brick-built house in the parish.^[16]

Gavin Plumley has written about the history of the village in A Home for All Seasons (2022).^[17][18]

Ye Olde Steppes en East Street es a la vez la tienda del pueblo y una cafetería y salón de té. ^{[ 26 ]} Está en un edificio del siglo XVI que fue ampliado en el siglo XVII y modificado en el siglo XIX. ^{[ 27 ]}

En Market Place se encuentra el New Inn, un pub del siglo XVII. ^{[ 28 ]} Pembridge tenía un pub del siglo XVI, el Greyhound Inn, en East Street, ^{[ 29 ]} pero ahora es el restaurante King's House. También en la parroquia se encuentra el bar y restaurante Cider Barn en Hays Head, que abre por temporadas.

• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1963). Herefordshire . Los edificios de Inglaterra . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books . págs. 266–269 . 
• Plumley, Gavin (2022). Un hogar para todas las estaciones . Atlantic Books .
• RCHME, ed. (1934). "Pembridge". Inventario de los monumentos históricos del condado de Herefordshire . Vol.  3, Noroeste. Londres: Comisión Real de Monumentos Históricos de Inglaterra . págs. 159-169 . 

• Consejo Parroquial de Pembridge
• El Fondo de Servicios de Pembridge
• El grupo de parroquias de Arrowvale archivado el 13 de agosto de 2020 en Wayback Machine.
• Pembridge medieval