COWARNE (MUCH), a parish in the hundred of
BROXASH, county of HEREFORD, '5 miles (S. S.W.)
from Bromyard, containing 585 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £14. 19.7->
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Gloucester. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary.