CODDINGTON (anciently Cotingtune) is a small parish on the borders of Worcestershire, distant 4 miles N. of Ledbury, 5 S.W. of Malvern, and 15 E. by N. of Hereford; is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury Union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and is a polling place for county elections. The population in 1861 was 168; in 1871, 180; inhabited houses, 34; families or separate occupiers; 40; area of parish, 1,064a. 1r. 21p.; annual rateable value, £1,492. The Lord Bishop of Hereford is lord of the manor, and Charles Archibald Hewitt, Esq., of Hope end, Henry Edward Vale, Esq., of Coddington house, and John Martin, Esq., of Upper hall, Ledbury, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, and yields excellent hops and apples. The other chief crops are wheat, beans, and roots. Coddington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Froome; living, a rectory; value, £186, with residence and 36 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; rector, Rev, George James Curtis, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1860.

The church forms a pretty object, and is prettily situated, the view from the churchyard westward being very extensive. This twelfth-century church, dedicated to All Saints, was restored in 1866 at a cost of about £2,200. It consists simply of nave and chancel without aisles, but having a new ornamental tower and spire at the west end containing a peal of six bells. It was originally a Norman structure, as appears by the round-headed door beneath a modern porch, and though restored, the Norman features have been preserved as much as possible. The Early English windows remain; those in the chancel were filled with stained glass in 1873. The church is paved with encaustic tiles from the well-known manufactory of Mr. W. Godwin, of Lugwardine. The reredos is composed of round intersecting arcades supported on polished marble pillars, which is very effective. There is a piscina on the south side.

There is an organ-chamber, and a fine organ was erected in 1871 by Nicholson, of Worcester. The restoration of this interesting fabric was carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of F.R. Kempson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford. The parish registers begin with the year 1675. A new school, with residence for the mistress, was built in 1868, near the church, at a cost of £650. The average attendance is about 25. There are charities to the amount of £30 yearly, the principal of which is a farm, devised in the reign of Henry VIII. for the benefit of the poorer classes. Coddington House is the residence of Captain Henry Edward Vale.