KENDERCHURCH, or HOWTON, is a small parish and village situated on the river Doyer, and intersected by the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West Midland section). It is distant 10½ miles S.W. of Hereford, and about 1 mile N. of Pontrilas railway station. The proposed Golden Valley railway will pass along the border of the parish. It is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Ewyas Harold polling district. The population in 1861 was 99; in 1871, 70; inhabited houses, 14; families or separate occupiers, 17; area of parish, 788a. 2r. 26p.; annual rateable value, £1,036 2s. E. Scudamore Lucas, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, chiefly clay; produce, wheat, beans, roots, &c. Kenderchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage; value, £62; patron, Robert William Dacre Harley, Esq.; vicar, Rev. Charles John Westropp, B.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1865, and resides at Wormbridge place. The church of St. Mary was completely restored in 1870, at a cost of £780. It has nave, chancel, porch, font, and small belfry with one bell. The children attend Wormbridge day school.