Hill Court Manor
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Hill Court Manor is a manor built in 1700 at Hom Green near Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye is a small market town with a population of 10,089 in southeastern Herefordshire, England, located on the River Wye, and on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean.-History:...

 in Herefordshire
Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...

. It is currently owned and occupied by Rehau Ltd.

Former Residents

  • Richard Clarke (d.1702), whom the house was originally built for
  • Jane Clarke (d. 1806)
  • Colonel Kingsmill Evans
  • Sir Manley Power
    Manley Power
    Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power, KCB, ComTE was a British military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He is chiefly remembered for leading a brigade of Portuguese troops under The Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War...

  • Kingsmill Manley Power (d. 1888)
  • Major Lionel Trafford, purchased it in 1890, kept in that family,
  • Christopher Rowley And George Hartman ( In early 1980 Christpher Rowley interior design bought Hill Court from Traford Family and in 1994 sold it to Rehau ) Rehau purchased it

Hill Court was occupied from 1940 to 1945 by Windsor's and Ingle's Houses of Felsted School
Felsted School
Felsted School, an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted, Essex. It is in the British Public School tradition, and was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired...

. Felsted School, Essex, had been evacuated to Mrs Trafford's 3 Herefordshire houses at her invitation to be out of the way of German bombing for the duration. The writer spent 3 delighful years at Hill Court.
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