WORMSLEY GRANGE, HEREFORDSHIRE, 1877. 
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE BROTHERS 
RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT and THOMAS ANDREW KNIGHT. 
The small parish of Wormsley, with its richly-wooded hills and picturesque valleys, forms one of the 
most secluded districts of Herefordshire. It is mentioned in Domesday Book as one of the possessions 
held by Roger de Lacy of the King. The Priory, established as early as the time of King John, became 
a house of considerable wealth and importance. Its remains now are only to be indistinctly traced in a 
meadow near the Grange. At the Dissolution its site and appurtenances were granted, in 1547, to 
Sir Edward Fiennes, Lord Clinton; and passing through possessors named Baskerville, Scory, Vernon, 
Crowther, and White (who rebuilt the house), it was purchased, in 1747, by the Rev. Thomas Knight, 
whose gifted sons were born there, and who himself died there, in 1764. It is now a farm house in the 
possession of his descendant, A. R. Boughton Knight, Esq., of Downton Castle. 
WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS,] 
[GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, W.C. 
