MONKLAND, a parish in the hundred of STRETFORD,
county of HEREFORD, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from
Leominster, containing 187 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £11. 0. 9.,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of
Windsor. The church, dedicated to All Saints, with
the manor, -was, in the time of William Rufus, given
by Ralph Tony to the abbey of Conches in Normandy,
upon which a cell of Benedictine monks was established
here, the possessions of which, at the suppression, were
granted to the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Courts
leet are occasionally held here.