Hope under Dinmore

{{Short description|Village in Herefordshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country = England

|official_name= Hope under Dinmore

|population= 412

|unitary_england=Herefordshire

|lieutenancy_england=Herefordshire

|region = West Midlands

|constituency_westminster= North Herefordshire

|post_town= Leominster

|postcode_district= HR6

|postcode_area=HR

|dial_code= 01568

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|coordinates = {{coord|52.17|-2.72|display=inline,title}}

|label_position = left

|static_image_name = Hope Under Dinmore - some of the old village - geograph.org.uk - 129036.jpg

|static_image_caption = Hope under Dinmore - the old village

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Hope under Dinmore is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The village is on the A49 road, {{convert|4|mi|0}} south of Leominster and {{convert|9|mi|0}} north of Hereford, and on the Welsh Marches railway line. The railway passes under Dinmore Hill through the split-level {{convert|1051|yard|0|adj=on}} long Dinmore Tunnel.{{Citation | title = Leominster and Bromyard (Explorer Maps) | publisher = Ordnance Survey | year = 2006 | edition = A1 | isbn = 9780319237595 }} Dinmore railway station closed in 1958, but the line remains open.{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |page=79 }} The church has a tower and is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.

The parish had a population in mid-2010 of 343,{{cite web |url= http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/what-can-i-request/published-ad-hoc-data/pop/december-2012/mid-2010-civil-parish-syoa-population-estimates-for-england-and-wales.xls |format = xls |publisher= Office for National Statistics |title= Mid-2010 Civil Parish SYOA population estimates for England and Wales}} increasing to 412 at the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124768&c=HR1+3LH&d=16&e=62&g=6385915&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1446220508594&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=30 October 2015}}

The 15th-century Hampton Court Castle lies east of the village. It was built in 1472 by Sir Rowland Lenthall who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt, taking so many prisoners that he was able to fund the completion of the building.{{cite book|title=Faccombe to Myton-upon-Swale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVTrsIIfg58C&pg=PA292|year=1868|pages=292–293}} It was later the ancestral home of the Earl Coningsby,{{cite web|title=Hampton Court|url=http://lc.zoocdn.com/ea7472c67f41d23a1cb4c379072fd678d5dfbf77.pdf}} and in the nineteenth century, passed into the hands of Richard Arkwright.

File:Railway bridge over the river Lugg - geograph.org.uk - 457365.jpg crossed by the Welsh Marches Line near Dinmore railway station.]]

Dinmore Manor, in a valley south-west of the hill, was founded as a preceptory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem.{{Cite book | last = Pevsner | first = Nikolaus | author-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | title = The Buildings of England - Herefordshire | publisher = Yale University Press | date = 1963 | isbn = 978-0300096095}} The ruins are still visible on the hillside above the village. It is the private residence of mobile phone tycoon Martin Dawes and no longer open to the general public.{{cite news |last1=Boyce |first1=Sally |title=Grade II listed manor goes up for sale |url=https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/16275202.grade-ii-listed-manor-goes-sale/ |accessdate=13 November 2020 |work=Hereford Times |date=7 June 2018}}

Winsley House, in the west of the parish, is a Grade II listed 14th-century farmhouse with later additions.{{National Heritage List for England entry|num=1082031|desc=Winsley House|access-date=23 July 2015}}

Most of the population of the village is centred in the housing estate called Cherrybrook Close, but the village extends up two roads, one of which leads to Westhope Common. The industrial and business park of Marlbrook is within the north-east of the parish, and partly in the neighbouring parish of Newton. This is where the Cadbury company has a factory that processes 180 million litres of fresh milk, 56,000 tonnes of sugar and 13,000 tonnes of cocoa liquor each year to produce milk chocolate crumb for the manufacture of milk chocolate.{{cite news |title=Cadbury recall after health fears |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5110674.stm |newspaper=BBC News |date=23 June 2006 |accessdate=25 March 2020}}