GRENDON BISHOP is a parish situated on the south side of the main road between Leominster and Bromyard, distant 4 miles W. of the latter town, 8 E.S.E. of Leominster, 9 S. of Tenbury, and 14 N.E. of Hereford; is in Broxash hundred, Docklow polling district, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 199; in 1871, 198; inhabited houses, 36; families or separate occupiers, 38; area of parish, 1,629 acres; annual rateable value, £1,674 10s. Evan Pateshall, Esq., M.P., of Allensmore court, who is lord of the manor, W. Henry Barneby, Esq., of Bredenbury court, Rev. R.M. Wood, G.H. Lee, Esq.; and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, are the landowners. The soil is clay with a subsoil of rock; chief crops, wheat, hops, beans, and fruit. Grendon Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Froome; living, a vicarage; value, £90; patron, the Vicar of Bromyard; vicar, Rev. Robert Bentley, B.A., of Bishop Hatfield Hall, Durham, who was instituted in 1874, and resides at Bromyard. There is no vicarage house in the parish. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a stone building with nave, chancel, porch, tower, two bells, font, and a few monuments. It was rebuilt in 1788, the old edifice having fallen down two years previously. In 1869-70 the church was enlarged and improved from designs by F.R. Kempson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford. The earliest register is dated 1612. There is a board school at Bredenbury for the parishes of Grendon Bishop, Breden bury, and Wacton. Brockington farm is at present void.