GOODRICH, or GODERICH, a parish in the lower
division of the hundred of WORMELOW, county of HEREFORD,
5 miles (S.w. by S.) from Ross, comprising the
townships of Glewston, Goodrich, and Huntisham, and
containing 711 inhabitants. The living is avicarage, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, rated in the
king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Bishop
of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St. Giles; for the
repairing and beautifying of it there is a bequest by
Mr. Gardner, producing £23 per annum. A bridge has
been lately built across the Wye, at an expense of £8000,
by which there is a free communication with the Forest
of Dean. Richard Talbot, lord of Goderich castle, founded
and endowed, in 1347, a small priory of Black canons,
in honoxir of St. John the Baptist, the revenue of which,
at the dissolution, was valued at £ 15. 8. 9. On a lofty and
beautifully wooded hill are the majestic remains of the
old castle of the Talbots, and near it there is another
recently erected by Dr. Meyrick, in the ancient baronial
ptyle, forming prominent and interesting objects in the
general beauty of the scene. Some years ago, two human
skeletons were discovered in the vicinity, lying
across each other. The Right Hon. Frederick John
Robinson was elevated to the peerage by the title of
Viscount Goderich, on-the 25th of April, 1827.