MONKLAND, a parish, with a village, in Leominster district, Hereford; on the river Arrow, 2¾ miles SW by W of Leominster r. station. Post town, Leominster. Acres, 1,079. Real property, £2,035. Pop., 211. Houses, 48. The property is snbdivided. The manor belongs to G. Bengough, Esq. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Conches abbey, in Normandy, was founded here, in the time of William Rufus, by Ralph Toni; and was given, at the suppression of alien monasteries, to the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £250. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is early English; the chancel was rebuilt in an ungainly manner, in 1825; the nave was repaired in 1853; and the entire fabric, at a cost of about £1,000, was restored in 1865. There are a national school, and charities £5.

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