LLANDINABO is a small parish situated on the main road between
Hereford and Ross (via Much Birch). It is distant 8 miles S. of Hereford,
6 N.W. of Ross, 3½ W. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross,
and Gloucester railway, and 4½ S.E. of Tram Inn station on the Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford railway. It is in Wormelow hundred (upper
division), Ross union and county court district, Much Birch polling
district, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in
1861 was 63; in 1871, 57; inhabited houses, 12; families or separate
occupiers, 12; area of parish, 494a. 2r. 22p.; annual rateable value,
£883. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., of Harewood house (who is lord
of the manor), the Rev. George Henry Bosanquet, of Broomy Close
house, Mr. John Matthews, and Mr. William Matthews, are the chief
landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay and red sandstone; products,
wheat, barley, roots, &c. Llandinabo is in the diocese and archdeaconry
of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a rectory;
value, £130; patron, C. Wren Hoskyns, Esq.; rector, Rev. Henry Lloyd
Oswell, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1872, and
is also chaplain of Harewood, and resides at Belle Vue, in the parish of
Pencoyd. The church of St. Dinebo is an ancient stone edifice, with
nave, chancel, bell-turret at the west end, but no bell. The north side
of the chancel was rebuilt in 1873. The register commences with the
year 1785. The children from this parish attend the school at Llanwarne.
Broomy Close House is the residence of the Rev. George Henry Bosanquet.
It lies between Llandinabo and Llanwarne.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.- Letters arrive by messenger from Ross about
9 a.m.; despatched thereto at 5.30 p.m. Much Birch is the nearest
money order office. Ross is the telegraph office and post town.
Parish Church (St. Dinebo).- Rev. Henry Lloyd Oswell, M.A., Rector;
Mr. George Morgan, Churchwarden; John Butcher, Parish Clerk.