BROCKHAMPTON is a small parish situated about ¾ of a mile from the river Wye, 7 miles N. of Ross, 10 S.E: of Hereford, and 2 N.E. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway. It is in Greytree hundred, Fownhope polling district, Ross union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 140; in 1871, 115; inhabited houses, 26; families or separate occupiers, 30; area of parish, 840 acres; annual rateable value, £1,456. Sir Christopher Robert Lighton, Bart., is lord of the manor and owner of the soil. The late Rev. Sir C.R. Lighton, Bart., purchased the Brockhampton estate of William Stallard, Esq. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, red sandstone; produce, wheat, barley, roots, and fruit. The living is a vicarage in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; annual value, £80; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Thomas West, M.A., of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in 1874, and resides at Fownhope vicarage. The Rev. Thomas Viall Cornell, of Durham University, is the curate. The church is an ancient edifice dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It has nave, chancel, porch, and low tower containing two bells. The earliest register is dated 1578. A. school was built in 1875 for the children of Brockhampton, Fawley, and a part of Woolhope. It cost about £200, and accommodation is provided for 48 children. Brockhampton House is the residence of Sir Christopher Robert Lighton, Bart., J.P.