LEINTWARDINE, a parish in the hundred of WIGMORE,
county of HEREFORD, comprising the townships
of Adforton, Brakes, Grange, Heath with Jay, Kinton,
Leintwardine, Letton, Mariow, Newton, Payton, Walford,
and Whitton with Trippleton, and containing 1277 inhabitants,
of which number, 346 are in the township
of Leintwardine, 9 miles (W. by S.) from Ludlow. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books
at £7.15. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. D.
Winslow. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St.
Paul, is a large structure, once famous for a profusion
of stained glass, of which the windows still display some
beautiful fragments, representing crowns, lions, fleurs de
lis, the arms of Mortimer, &c. Leintwardine is situated
near the confluence of the Teme and the Clun, and from
the quantity of fine fish, particularly graylings, with
which these rivers abound, is much resorted to as a
fishing-place. There are quarries of limestone in the
parish: a fair is held on the 4th of April. The Rt. Hon.
Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford and Mortimer,
founded, in the reign of Anne, a free school, and
endowed it with land now producing an annual income
of about £45. The ancient forest of Mocktree, which
has been long disafforested, is in this parish.