BICKNOR (WELCH), a parish in the lower division of the hundred of SKENFRETH, county of MONMOUTH, locally in the lower division of the hundred of Wormelow, county of Hereford, 7 miles (S. by W.) from Ross, containing 113 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains an antique chalice, said to have been brought into Europe with the Saracens; the lid is of beaten silver, and it bears other evidences of high antiquity. At Courtfield, a private mansion about half a mile off, there is a Roman Catholic chapel; and tradition relates that Henry V. was nursed there, under the care of the Countess of Salisbury, who, according to the same authority, is represented by a recumbent stone figure in the church. The parish is almost surrounded by the river Wye.