Description
Bishops-Frome, a township and a parish in the county of Hereford. The township lies on the river Frome, 4 1/2 miles S of Bromyard, and 5 1/2 N of Ashperton station on the G.W.R., and has a post and money order office under Worcester; telegraph office, Bromyard. The parish includes also the townships of Halmonds-Frome, Leadon, Walton, and Stanford-Regis. Acreage, 3983; population, 718. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £406 with residence. The church was restored in 1863 ; it is partly Norman and Early English, and contains many ancient monuments. A chapel of ease and a Congregational chapel are situated at Frome Hill, and a Wesleyan chapel at Bishops-Frome.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
