BODENHAM, a parish (anciently a market-town)
in the hundred of BROXASH, county of HEREFORD, 8
miles (N. N. E.) from Hereford, containing 964 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at
£12. 1. 5., and in the patronage of R. Arkwright, Esq.
The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river
Lug winds through the parish. Here is a small endowed
school. Walter Devereux, in 1379, obtained permission
to hold a market on Tuesday, and a fair on the
eve, day, and morrow of the Assumption of Our Lady,
but they have been long discontinued. Thomas Mason,
Esq., by will dated in 1773, gave nine acres of land,
lying within the parish, directing the rental to be distributed
among poor housekeepers not receiving parochial
aid.