BREINTON is a parish and scattered village delightfully situated on an eminence bordering on the river Wye, which bounds the parish on the southern side. It is distant 3 miles W.S.W. from Hereford, and is in Grimsworth hundred, Hereford union, county court district, polling district, highway district, and petty sessional division. A small portion of this parish is within the parliamentary and municipal boundary of the city of Hereford. The population in 1861 was 398; in 1871, 445; inhabited houses, 90; families or separate occupiers, 104; area of parish, 1,568 acres; annual rateable value, £3,980. The principal landowners are Edmund James Lewis, Esq., John Cranston, Esq., Frederick Platt, Esq., Miss Anne Parry, Mrs. J.E. Jones, and Messrs. Thomas. The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, clay; chief crops, wheat, barley, oats, and fruit. At King's Acre, in this parish, distant about 2¼ miles from the city of Hereford, are the extensive nursery-grounds belonging to Messrs. Cranston and Mayos. The "Kings Acre nurseries" have been established nearly a century, and rank among the first in the kingdom for the production of roses. Breinton is inn the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a vicarage; value, £139, with residence and 3 acres of glebe; also an annual augmentation of 1121 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; vicar, Rev. John Joseph Lomax, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, who was instituted in 1875. The church (St. Michael's) consists of nave, north aisle, and chancel, with spire at the west end containing two bells. The north aisle was added and the chancel rebuilt in 1867, under the superintendence of F.R. Kempson, Esq., architect, of Hereford; total cost, £1,950. The floors are laid with encaustic tiles, and the east window is of stained glass representing the Crucifixion. At the entrance to the churchyard is a lych-gate. The parish registers begin with the year 1625. There are charities producing about £9 per annum. The national school at Lower Breinton was opened in January 1855; average attendance of boys and girls, about 30. Here is a chapel and school, the latter of which is applied to the education of 40 children, and endowed by Lady Southampton. Adjoining the King's Acre nurseries is a reading-room, formerly the Coach and Horses Inn, now used chiefly by the workmen employed by Messrs. Cranston and Mayos.