Moccas is a village and
civil parish in the
English county of
Herefordshire. It is located 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 ...
. The population of the civil parish taken at the
2011 census was 105.
The parish is mainly farmland with a number of woods, including Woodbury Hill Wood and the Moccas Park Deer Park (though mostly in
Dorstone
Dorstone is a village within the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, England. There is a thriving community with a church and public house with restaurant. The Golden Valley area offers excellent hillwalking and horseback riding countryside and is no ...
parish). The
parish church of St Michael is well known as the site of the very early
Welsh
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Moccas Monastery
Moccas Monastery was an early mediaeval monastery near Moccas in Herefordshire, England
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, founded by Saint
Dubricius in the 6th century,
as recorded in the ''
Book of Llandaff''. The church has a notable monument to the de Fresnes family, lords of the manor in the 14th century.
Moccas Court
Moccas Court is an 18th-century country house which sits in sloping grounds overlooking the River Wye north of the village of Moccas, Herefordshire, England. It is now a luxury guest house and function venue.
The house was built in 1775–81 by t ...
, north of the village, replaced the old
manor house which once stood next to the church. It is a fine
Georgian
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country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
, now a
hotel, built between 1776 and 1783 for the
Cornewall family by the architect
Anthony Keck
Anthony Keck (1726–1797) was an 18th-century English architect with an extensive practice in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and South Wales.
Life
Keck was born at Randwick, Gloucestershire in 1726 He designed in the "austere ...
.
The name Moccas probably derives from the Welsh Moch-rhos, meaning pig land, according to the Moccas village history website.
References
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External links
Photos of Moccas and surrounding area on geographHistory of Moccas in HerefordshireMoccas Court
Villages in Herefordshire
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