HOPE-under-DINMORE, a parish in the hundred
of WOLPHY, county of HEREFORD, 4 miles (S. by E.)
from Leominster, containing 528 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Hereford, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £ 1200 royal bounty, and in -the patronage of
the Bishop of Hereford. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, contains the remains of several members of the
Coningsby family, one of whom, Sir Thomas, founded
Coningsby's hospital, in Hereford. On the western brow
of Dinmore hill is the site of a commandery of the
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.