Pencombe is a village in the
Pencombe with Grendon Warren civil parish
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of
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. The village is south-west of
Bromyard
Bromyard is a town in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome. It lies near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, inclu ...
(the local market town with schools and a
hospital
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) and about north-east 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 ...
, in each case reached by minor roads.
A parish hall caters for community events and there are part time post office services provided every Tuesday (midday - 1pm) by a mobile unit. The village
public house
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is the Wheelwright Arms. Parish population in 2017 was estimated to be 336.
St John's Church is constructed in the
Norman style
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of soft local red sandstone, and replaces a medieval building on the same site. In 2009 a
female parish priest was appointed. Across the road is the former parish hall, opened in the 1890s, now a private dwelling. Other village buildings include Pencombe Court and Pencombe Church of England Primary School, both adjacent to the church. Pencombe Hall, a private residential care home to the south of the village, with
coach house
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Guidance/instruction
* Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities
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** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers
Transportation
* Coac ...
, now a private dwelling, were built by
John Arkwright, of
Hampton Court
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to the east, a descendant of
Richard Arkwright
Sir Richard Arkwright (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792) was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as t ...
.
Pencombe has a village cricket team, with no home ground, which plays Sunday friendly away games.
Pencombe Cricket Club
Retrieved 8 November 2019
Trade directory extract for Pencombe from 1863:
The New Zealand zoologist Charles Chilton was born in Pencombe in 1860.
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Villages in Herefordshire