Garway

Garway is a civil parish in south-west Herefordshire, England. The population of the civil parish was at the 2011 census 430. It is set on a hillside above the River Monnow about 10 km northwest of Monmouth. It is a sparsely populated area, mainly agricultural in nature. There are several small centres of population: Garway, Broad Oak, The Turning and Garway Hill.Garway churchThe church is on the western edge of the parish and is dedicated to Saint Michael.The earliest record of a monastery on the site is in the seventh century, but it is with the arrival of the Knights Templar in 1180 that the history of the church at Garway becomes clearer. The Knights Templar built a hut in honour of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.The excavated foundations of part of the round church (unearthed in 1927)(June 4-6 2010