Dinedor is a hill, 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh ...

, England. Dinedor is situated south east of

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

. The hilltop is the site of

Dinedor Camp Dinedor Camp is an Iron Age hillfort, about west of the village of Dinedor and about south of Hereford in England. It is a scheduled monument. In 2016, Dinedor Camp was acquired by Dinedor Parish Council, as a community asset transfer from H ...

, an Iron Age fort. The name Dinedor is possibly of Celtic origin meaning ''hill with a fort''. Dinedor is a scattered Herefordshire village, lying around 3km south east of the county town of Hereford. It contains around 135 residential properties housing up to 200 individuals. The village is dominated by Dinedor Hill, site of Dinedor Camp, which lies at the south end of Dinedor Ridge. There are two main centres of occupation, one clustered around the Church of St Andrew’s and the other on the slopes of Dinedor Camp. Up until 1912 the vast majority of the land was owned by Rotherwas Estate, traditional home of the Bodenham family, this covered around two and a half thousand acres. This was put up for auction in 1912 and included in the sale were 15 farms, 19 small holdings, 25 cottages plus a blacksmiths shop together with shooting and fishing rights. The church of St Andrew is thought to date from the 13th century. It was almost entirely rebuilt in 1867–8 by FR Kempson, except for pyramid-roofed west tower which is believed to be an original part. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1987. The ecclesiastical form of spelling the name of the parish has always been Dyndor.

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External links

Dinedor community website
Villages in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub