Clehonger is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

, England, and south-west of

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

. Clehonger is from the old English 'Clayey wooded slope.' The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,382.

Community

Apart from the occasional farm cottage or farmhouse, most housing in the village is predominantly a mix of post First World War

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, and mid-1960s to 1980s buildings. The post World War II housing is mainly near the north side of the village, while the 1970s and 1980s housing was built on the south and west. Mid-1960s housing occupies the centre of the village. In the 1970 and 1980s,

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s and

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s proliferated while the 1960s housing is the more traditional three or four bedroom

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type. A petrol station was closed around 2000, demolished, and the land used for housing in 2001. Clehonger has a small shop with post office, and a village hall which is the base for a pre-school. The village school, for 5–11 year olds, accommodates approximately 130-150 pupils, its catchment area including Belmont (a suburb of Hereford), 2 miles away.

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services became available in the village from June 2005. The village

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, The Seven Stars, was one of the first pubs in Herefordshire to have a petanque piste. The 12th-century parish church, dedicated to All Saints, is a Grade I

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significant for its monuments to the local

Pembridge Pembridge is a village and civil parish in Arrow valley in Herefordshire, England. The village is on the A44 road about east of Kington and west of Leominster. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Bearwood, Lower Bearwood, Lower Broxwo ...

manorial family. The major road link is the B4349, which passes through the middle of the village. Clehonger is served by two bus routes: Cardiff to Hereford via Hay-on-Wye and Brecon; and Madley to Hereford.

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* {{authority control Villages in Herefordshire