MORDIFORD, a village and a parish in the district and county of Hereford. The village stands on the river Lug, near its influx to the Wye, and under Backbury hill, 2 miles NNE of Holme-Lacy r. station, and 4½ ESE of Hereford; and has a post office under Hereford, a bridge over the Lug, and a recently-erected bridge over the Wye. The parish contains also the hamlets of Checkley, Checkley-Green, Sufton, and the Rock. Acres, 1,478. Real property, £2,707. Pop., 691. Houses, 149. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lady Emily Foley. The rocks are interesting to geologists; form outlying ridges of the great Silurian valley of elevation; and include much limestone, very rich in fossils. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £318.* Patron, Lady Emily Foley. The church has Norman portions; is chiefly later English; has a transept rebuilt in 1852, and a tower rebuilt in 1814; has also a memorial window to the eldest daughter of R. Hereford, Esq.; and contains a piscina, an ancient monument, an effigies with a very ancient inscription, and a memorial of a very remarkable storm which passed over the village in 1811. There are a national school, and charities £7.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))