HUMBER is a parish situated on the south side of the main road between Leominster and Bromyard, distant 3½ miles S.E. of Leominster, 9 W. of Bromyard, and 13 N.N.E. of Hereford; is in Wolphy hundred, Leominster union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Docklow polling district. The population in 1861 was 251; in 1871, 264; inhabited houses, 56; families or separate occupiers, 57; area of parish, 2,500 acres; annual rateable value, £1,632. Captain Edward Nicholas Heygate, R.E., who is lord of the manor, and John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, fruit, and hops. Humber is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory; value, £340, including 140 acres of glebe; patron, J.H. Arkwright, Esq.; rector, Rev. Philip John Scudamore-Stanhope, M.A., of Magdalen College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1869. An excellent rectory house has been recently erected. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small stone edifice, with tower, porch, nave, chancel, and about 130 sittings. A new school with class-room and teacher's residence was erected in 1874-75 at Risbury, at a cost of £500. It is built to accommodate about 60 children, in accordance with the requirements of the "Elementary Education Act". Mr. J. Cox, of Leominster, was the builder. Risbury is a township partly in this parish and partly in that of Stoke Prior. Risbury Camp comprises an area of 8 acres; it is now annexed to the farm of Mr. Henry C. Lambert. It is one of the line of British encampments which commenced at the Malvern hills.