STANFORD BISHOP is a parish situated on the borders of Worcestershire, distant 3 miles S.E. of Bromyard, 12 N. of Ledbury, 14 N.E. of Hereford, and about 2 S.W. of Yearsett station on the Worcester and Bromyard railway. It is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county, court district, polling district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 234; in 1871, 237; inhabited houses, 49; families or separate occupiers, 55; area of parish, 1,471 acres; annual rateable value, £2,002. The Lord Bishop of Hereford is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Rev. Arthur Childe, of Edvin Ralph, George Bearcroft Essex, Esq., Leigh court, near Worcester, Sir Edmund A.H. Lechmere, Bart., M.P., Rhydd court, Upton-on-Severn, the Executors of the late Rev. W. Wall, and the trustees of the Worcester municipal charities. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, beans, oats, hops, fruit, &c. Stanford Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Froome; living, a vicarage; value, £80; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; vicar, Rev. John Booth, B.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1836, and resides at The Firs, near Bromyard. The church, dedicated to St. James, is an old stone edifice in a very dilapidated state. It consists of nave, chancel, porch, and small square tower containing two bells. The chancel was fully restored a few years ago, mainly at the expense of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The parish register begins with the year 1750. A school board has been recently formed for the united district of Stanford Bishop and Acton Beauchamp (Worcestershire), and a new school is about to be erected.