LITTLE COWARNE, otherwise COWARNE PARVA, is a parish and village situate about 1½ miles W. of the main road between Bromyard and Hereford, 5 miles S.W. of Bromyard, 10 N.E. of Hereford, 9 S.E. of Leominster, 13 N.W. of Ledbury, and 6 E. of Dinmore railway station. It is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Burley Gate polling district. The population in 1861 was 186; in 1871, 213; inhabited houses, 43; families or separate occupiers, 46; area of parish, 696 acres; annual rateable value, £1,133. John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton court, Leominster, and James Parker, Esq., of Lulsley court, Worcester, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, beans, peas, hops, and fruit. Little Cowarne is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Froome; living, a vicarage united to the rectory of Ullingswick; joint value, £335, with 54 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; vicar, Rev. John Middleton Ware, LL.B., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1855, and resides at Ullingswick rectory. The church is an old Norman edifice, with nave, chancel, south porch, font, and two bells. It underwent restoration in 1869 at a cost of £510. There are three small windows of stained glass in the chancel. Divine service is held once on Sundays. The earliest register is dated 1563. The children of this parish attend the national schools at Ullingswick and Pencombe.