LINGEN is a parish and village situate in the north-western portion of the county, on the main road from Ludlow to Presteigne, and on the Leintwardine road. It is distant 4 miles S.W. of Wigmore, 4 N.E. of Presteigne, 11 S.W. of Ludlow, 14 W.N.W. of Leominster, and 23 N.W. of Hereford; is in Wigmore hundred, petty sessional division, and polling district, Presteigne union and county court district. The projected railway from Presteigne to Clun and Bishop's Castle is surveyed to intersect the parish, but the plan seems in abeyance. The population in 1861 was 287; in 1871, 272; inhabited houses, 63; families or separate occupiers, 67; area of parish, 2,283 acres; annual rateable value, £2,044. The Rev. John Edwards is lord of the manor and chief owner of the parish. The soil is various, producing wheat, barley, oats, and roots. Close to the church are the remains of the old castle of the Lingens. The parish is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a vicarage; value, £95, with residence; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Leonidas Clint, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1874, and is also chaplain of Upper Kinsham.

The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a plain edifice, with nave, chancel, porch, small belfry and three bells. It is in a fair state of repair. There is a school for boys and girls, supported by the Rev. John Edwards, W.J. Gisborne, Esq., several subscribers, Betton's charity, and the government grant. The average attendance is about 60. Upwards of £700 have been spent upon the school buildings. A night school is also held during the winter. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £8 10s. yearly. The Primitive Methodists have two chapels here. Limebrook, a township situated about half a mile south of the village, is partly in this parish and partly in that of Wigmore. Here was formerly a cell, belonging to Aveney, in Normandy, and at a little distance, near the left bank of the river Lugg, was a priory of nuns of the order of St. Augustine, founded by some of the Mortimer family about the reign of Richard I., and which continued till the general suppression, when it had six nuns, and was valued at £22 17s. 8d. per annum.