ACCONBURY, or ACORNBURY, a parish in the
upper division of the hundred of WORMELOW, county
of HEREFORD, 4 miles (S.) from Hereford, containing
148 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy with
that of Callow, annexed to the vicarage of Dewsall, in
the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Hereford, endowed
with £400 royal bounty. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. A nunnery of the order
of St. Augustine was founded here, in the reign of
John, by Margery, wife of Walter de Lacy, to the honour
of the Holy Cross, the revenue of which, at the
dissolution, was £75.7. 5.: the remains have been converted
into a farm-house, and some stone coffins are
still preserved. On the summit of Acconbury hill are
traces of a large Roman encampment, of a square form,
the rampart of which, on the east side, is plainly discernible.