Rocklands House, Goodrich

Rocklands House near Goodrich, Herefordshire, England, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register.

This event was described in a book of 1800 in the following terms: At Yuxton, Walter Hill is building a handsome mansion which when completed will equal the finest in the area.

The house occupies a gentle rise a short distance from the edge of the river, fronted by a beautiful lawn and protected in the back ground by the Coppet Hill round which the Wye makes such an extensive sweep and from whose summit we enjoy a most beautiful view of the principal objects noticed in these pages.

It reflects the highest credit on the taste and sociability of the gentlemen of fortune in this county by the erection of a house in such a spot as we are now speaking of.

[3]Walter Hill was an attorney who lived in Ross-on-Wye and was at one time the owner of Merton House[4] and many other properties.

[11] He was born in 1808 in Madley Herefordshire and shortly before his birth his father John Lawrence Herbert died.

Admiral Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson joined the Royal Navy at a very early age and quickly rose through the ranks.

In 1901 their eldest son Lieutenant Reginald Pearson was killed in the War in South Africa and his parents erected a memorial window in Goodrich Church in his honour which can still be seen today.