MUNSLEY is a small parish situated between the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway and the Hereford and Gloucester canal. It is adjacent to Ashperton railway station, and is distant 4½ miles N.W. of Ledbury, 11 E. of Hereford, and 10 S. of Bromyard; is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Tarrington polling district. The population in 1861 was 234; in 1871, 186; inhabited houses, 36; families or separate occupiers, 41; area of parish, 1,218a. 2r. 16p.; annual rateable value, £1,978. John Hopton, Esq., of Canon ffroome court, Mr. John Pitt, and Mr. Gibbs, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, hops, beans, roots, and fruit. Munsley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Froome; living, a rectory, united to Canon ffroome vicarage; joint value, £400, with residence and 28 acres of glebe; patron, John Hopton, Esq.; rector, Rev. William Buckle, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1871. The Rev. Edmund Verdon Amery, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, is curate in sole charge of Munsley. The church, an ancient edifice dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was restored by rate and private benefactions in 1863, at a cost of £750. It consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret and two bells, and possesses some interesting features. The children from this parish attend the district elementary school at Ashperton.