ASHPERTON is a parish with a railway station on the Hereford and Worcester branch of the Great Western railway, distant 6 miles N.W. of Ledbury, and 9 E. of Hereford; is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Tarrington polling district. The population in 1861 was 534; in 1871, 492; inhabited houses, 99; families or separate occupiers, 123; area of parish, 1,715a. 2r. 26p.; annual rateable value, £2,866. John Hopton, Esq., of Canon Ffroome court, is the chief landowner. The soil is very fertile, and wheat, beans, hops, and fruit are grown. The Hereford and Gloucester canal intersects the parish. The living is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Froome; it is a chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Stretton Grandison; joint annual value, £620, with residence; patron, John Hopton, Esq.; vicar, Rev. John Buckle, M.A., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in 1859. The church of St. Bartholomew is a plain cruciform structure, with large chancel of exceedingly pleasing proportions, rebuilt in 1840 at a cost of £640. It has a square castellated tower containing four bells. The earliest register is dated 1537. The national school was erected in 1856, and was enlarged in 1874, on the requisition of the Educational Department, at an expense of £155, to provide accommodation for 152 children. It is under a certificated master; number of children on the books, 130; average attendance, 100. It is now the public elementary school for the parishes of Ashperton, Canon Ffroome, Munsley, Pixley, and Parkhold.