Kinsham is a civil parish which lies in the wooded hills of Herefordshire, England in the Marches near to the border with Wales, about 3 miles (5 km) east of the Welsh town of Presteigne.

There is evidence of human occupation as far back as the Bronze Age at a round barrow (SO34006400)[2] On either 2nd or 3 February 1461 the Battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought downstream from Kinsham.

It is a small agricultural place.The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland[4] The mansion of Kinsham Court is near the village.

Edwardian owner, Sir John Stanhope Arkwright (of the famous textiles family), wrote the hymn O Valiant Hearts.

The Herefordshire Trail long distance footpath crosses the River Lugg in the village and then climbs Cole's Hill.