CASTLE FROOME is a parish and small village situated on the main road between Ledbury and Bromyard, about 6½ miles N.W. by N. of Ledbury, 7 S. of Bromyard, 13 E. by N.E. of Hereford, and 13 S.W. of Worcester; in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Bishop's Froome polling district. The population in 1861 was 160; in 1871, 177; inhabited houses, 38; families or separate occupiers, 44; area of parish, 1,488a. 0r. 13p.; annual rateable value, £2,011. John Hopton, Esq., of Canon ffroome court, Rev. William Poole, of Hentland, and Rev. Francis Elton Freeman, are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy land, strong clay and loam; hops are much cultivated, with wheat, beans, and fruit. Some good cider is made here. Castle Froome is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Froome; living, a rectory; value, £258, with residence and 58½ acres of glebe; patron, Rev. Francis Elton Freeman; rector, Rev. William Godden Lyall, M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1843. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small stone edifice with bell-turret. The earliest register is dated 1624. There is a school for boys and girls of this parish and a part of Bishop's Froome. New school buildings, with accommodation for 50 children, have been recently erected at Froome's hill.