ST. WEONARDS is a large parish and village situated on the main road between Hereford and Monmouth, and about 1 mile N. of the Ross and Abergavenny road; is distant 7½ miles W. of Ross, 7½ N. of Monmouth, and 10 S. of Hereford; is in Wormelow hundred (lower division), Ross union and county court district, Harewood End petty sessional division, and is a polling place for county elections. The population in 1861 was 690; in 1871, 694; inhabited houses, 131; families or separate occupiers, 143; area of parish, 4,465a. 3r. 3p.; annual rateable value, £6,150. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., of Harewood house, is lord of the manor or hundred of Wormelow. The principal landowners in St. Weonards are the Rev. Daniel Capper, M.A., Robert Baskerville Rickards Mynors, Esq., of Evencoed, Radnor, T.W. Harvey, Esq., Thomas Mayos, Esq., Rev. Francis Evans, the Misses Howard, and the Governors of Guy's Hospital. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, chiefly rock; produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c.

St. Weonards derives its name from the dedication of its church to the British saint of that name, whose figure, represented as an old man sustaining a book and an axe, was formerly in the north chancel window. Several of the ancient family of the Mynors, who came over with William the Conqueror, and were seated at Treago in this parish, lie buried here. The church is a fine specimen of Norman architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, side aisle, porch, and square tower containing six bells. The tower was pointed in cement and put into a thorough state of repair in 1874 at a cost of about £200. The church is well and handsomely pewed, and contains several monuments and tablets. The east window in the Mynors chapel has been restored at the expense of Mrs. Mynors, of Treago, in memory of the late Peter Rickards Mynors, Esq. A memorial window, on the north side of the chancel, has been erected to the memory, of Cecilia, wife of the Rev. W. Bond.

The living is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; it is united to the vicarage of Llangarren; joint value, £464, with 27 acres of glebe; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Henry John Potts, B.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1854, and resides at Trecilla house, Llangarren. The Rev. William Bond, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, is the curate in sole charge. St. Weonards living is worth £220 yearly, with 18 acres of glebe. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £30 yearly. The national school for boys and girls was enlarged in 1873 at a cost of £220. It is under government inspection and affords instruction to about 100 children. Some of the children from this parish attend the new school at Llanrothall. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel at Broad Oak. Treago, the residence of Mrs. Mynors, and Northgate House, the property of the Rev. Daniel Capper, M.A., and occupied by Samuel Cannock, Esq., are situated in this parish. Broad Oak is a hamlet partly in this parish and partly in Garway.