Penrhos is an area or hamlet at the top of the hill east of Kington

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, Herefordshire

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 near the Welsh

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 border. The name is derived from the Welsh

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words pen and rhos and means "head (top) of the moor". In the area there are a small number of buildings including Penrhos Farm and Penrhos Court.

History

Penrhos originated around the late 13th century with a large cruck dwelling. Generations of owners have added more buildings and at one stage it became a small hamlet of half a dozen dwellings. Farm barns were added which formed a squared of ancient farm building surrounding a courtyard with a puddle duck pond and a well in the middle. Records of 1752 refer to the area as Penrose, in 1841 as Penrhose, in 1850 again as Penrose being a farm of 213 acre (0.86198118 km²), then 1880 as the first reference to the Welsh name of Penrhos which it is still now known by.