THORNBURY, a parish in the hundred of BROXASH,
county of HEREFORD, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from
Bromyard, containing, with the township of Westwood,
183 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's
books at £5. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Mrs. Pytts.
Wall Hill camp, in this parish, has a triple intrenchment,
almost perfect, and is supposed to be a work of
the ancient Britons. At Netherwood, in this parish,
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was beheaded in
1601, was born, in 1567.