BRIMFIELD is a parish and village pleasantly situated on the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, and adjacent to the river Teme, which here forms part of the boundary. It is distant 4½ miles S. by E. from Ludlow, 4½ W. from Tenbury, 6 N. by E. from Leominster, 19 N, from Hereford, and about ½ mile S.E. from Wofferton junction on the Shrewsbury and Hereford and the Wofferton, Tenbury, and Bewdley railways; is in Wolphy hundred, Tenbury union and county court district, Leominster petty sessional division, and is a polling place for county elections. The population in 1861 was 665; in 1871, 673; inhabited houses, 143; families or separate occupiers, 168; area of parish, 1,842 acres; annual rateable value, £3,454. John Salwey, Esq., is lord of the manor, and the principal landowners are Major Edward M'Laughlin, John Brown Shelton, Esq., John Edmonds, Esq., Humphrey Child, Esq., Captain E. Salwey, Miss Harriet Shenton, and the Rev. George Pinhorn. The soil is clay and loam subsoil, marl; chief produce, corn, hops, roots, and fruit. Brimfield is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of Leominster. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, under the provisions of "The District Church Tithes Act, 1865", have created the benefice of Brimfield into a rectory; it is worth £162 yearly, with residence and 5 acres of glebe, including £30 paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and £9 by Queen Anne's bounty; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; rector, Rev. George Pinhorn, M.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in 1832. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a plain structure, with tower containing three bells. It has nave and chancel (which were rebuilt in 1834), organ, font, old register, and a chest. Here was a college of secular canons in the reign of Henry I., but in the year 1155 they turned Benedictine monks, and resigned their lands to the Abbey of Gloucester. There is a National school for boys and girls, under Government inspection. It is a handsome brick building, with residence for the master attached. There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel at Wyson. Brimfield Hall is the residence of Captain E. Salwey. Wyson is a hamlet 1 mile N.W. of the church.