ORCOP is a parish and straggling village situated about 1½ miles W. of the main road between Hereford and Monmouth, 9½ miles S.S.W. of Hereford, 9 W.N.W. of Ross, and 6 E. of Pontrilas station on the West Midland section of the Great Western railway. It is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Dore union, Harewood End petty sessional division, St. Weonard's polling district, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1861 was 583; in 1871, 637; inhabited houses, 147; families or separate occupiers, 157; area of parish, 2,403 acres; annual rateable value, £1,872. The trustees of the late T.G. Symons, Esq., are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, sandstone and limestone; chief crops, wheat, barley, turnips, &c. Orcop is in the diocese and arcbdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage; value, £220; patron and vicar, Rev. Arthur Gray, M.A., of University College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1859. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was restored, in 1863 at a cost of £749. The restoration included reseating, after the model of the old benches, opening to view the timber roofs, reslating, rebuilding the tower, steeple, and porch, constructing new chancel and tower arches, adding a vestry, removing all exterior and interior plaster and whitewash, pointing the walls, repairing the general fabric, inserting four or five new windows, and forming an open drain round the exterior. A text, in blue with gold letters, was placed over the chancel arch by R.H. Capper, Esq., who also presented the altar cloth. A new harmonium was provided by subscription in 1868. The registers go back to the year 1672. The school is at present closed, and a school board has been proposed for the parish. There are chapels for the Baptists and the Primitive Methodists.