Countryside scenes at Burghill, a village in Herefordshire, England, north-west of Hereford.
The parish includes the villages of Burghill, Tillington, Portway and Eltons Marsh, originally a small village of farms and orchards situated on the road from Moreton-on-Lugg. There was an iron age hill fort in prehistory on the hill north of Hereford, as one of the earliest settlements it stood on a Roman road from Kenchester and was probably recognised by Alfred the Great's 'burghal hidage'. Burghill was called Burgelle in the Domesday Book, and in Pipe Rolls, 1169, Burchil. By 1212 the Red Book of Exchequer used the name Burghulle but It has been Burghill for the last eight centuries. The village of Burghill was a feudal manor with a strip field system of villein cultivation but its true significance was as a nobleman's manor owned first by Bernard de Neumarch, William de Braose, and thence to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. It was connected to the manor of Tillington in the 13th century until Roger de Burghill sold it to Earl Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. The manor of Burghill passed through various scions of the de Burghill family until 1303 when the de Mynors share past to Godfrey de Gamage; both renowned local famlies. In the early modern period the estate was split up when Griffin Barton bought in part before in 17th century Richard Witherstone built The Lodge. It has been suggested that Burghill may have been the site of the first castle to have been built in England. It would have been built before the Norman conquest, about the year 1051, by Normans in the service of Osbern Pentecost, a follower of Ralph de Mantes and supporter of Edward the Confessor.
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Location: Burghill, Hereford, UK
Photo credit: © Philip Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
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