The Templars received five gifts in Herefordshire. Their preceptory at Garway, was the administration house of the order, forvthe area and they established another preceptory at Upleadon.

Three smaller properties at St. Wulstan in Welsh Newton, Rowlestone & Harewood were farmed out.

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St Wulstan the Templars owned a house with outbuildings, 100 acres of land and a pasture. The late 13th century church at Welsh Newton was appropriated to the Templars, And Also bears a number of Potential Knights Templar Graves,

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Rowlestone was a small estate with a manor house and 200 acres, which was rented out. This was probably the present Court Farm, which dates back to the 14th century.

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Harewood, the Templars had a manor house, a watermill, 200 acres of land, a pasture, and an appropriated church. The estate was formerly granted by King John to Godscall, who transferred it to the Templars at Garway.

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Upleadon, (Know know as Bosbury) lies the church of the Holy Trinity, a stones throw from another clue to the Templars prescence, a farm named Temple Court Farm. A report in 1338 records a manor house, with a garden, a dovecote, a watermill, 740 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, ans several pastures.

Close to the Church is a curios barn, with an enlarged entrance, (nor bricked up towards the top) and another entrance next to it, which looks out of place for the barn itself, however could this have been a grander entrance to the Preceptory, with the Church at the side?

The Church itself is similar in design to that of its neighbouring preceptory at Garway, as in it has a seperate tower to the Church (Garways had been connected at sometime to the Church itself) Could this have been for storing relics or money?

Within the church also lies three marked Knights Templar/Hospitaller grave stones, in the south arcade.

It is clear to see that Bosbury was once a thriving Templar/Hospitaller community.

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In Hereford, there was a short lived Templar presence at St Giles hospital, consisting of a chapel, and tenements. St Giles was founded in the 12th century, on St Owens street, but demolished in 1927, in order to widen the road. During demolition the foundations of the chapel were discovered revealing it to. be circular,

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