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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Kinsham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "KINSHAM (UPPER), a parish in the [registration] district of Presteigne, and county of Hereford; on the river Lug, contiguous to Lower Kinsham, 3¼ miles E of Presteigne, and 4½ NNW of Pembridge [railway] station. Post town: Presteigne, Radnorshire. Acres: 1,243. Real property, with Lower Kinsham: £1,146. Population: 88. Houses: 15. Kinsham Court, a fine old mansion, now partly ruinous, was the seat of the Oxford and Mortimer families. Kinsham Dingle is a picturesque locality, much frequented by the curious. The living is a donative in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £15. Patron: the Earl of Oxford. The church is modern."
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