LITTLE HEREFORD is a parish with a railway station (Easton Court) on the Wooferton, Tenbury, and Bewdley branch of the G.W. and L. and N.W. Joint railways. It forms one of the north-eastern promontories of Herefordshire, which project into the counties of Worcester and Salop, and is situated on the main road to Tenbury, and near the river Teme. It is distant 3 miles W. of Tenbury, 5½ S.E. of Ludlow, 8 N.E. of Leominster, and 22 N. of Hereford; is in Wolphy hundred, Brimfield polling district, Tenbury union and county court district, and Leominster petty sessional division. The population (including Upton township) in 1861 was 458; in 1871, 509; inhabited houses, 100; families or separate occupiers, 106; area of parish, 3,550 acres; annual rateable value, £4,750. Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bart., M.P., of Glan-Usk park, Breconshire, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey and gravelly; subsoil, stone and gravel; chief crops, wheat, barley, hops, and roots.

Little Hereford is in the diocese of Hereford and archdeaconry and rural deanery of Ludlow; living, a rectory, to which is annexed the vicarage of Ashford Carbonell; joint value, £275, with residence and 17 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; rector, Rev. Llewellyn Jones, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1874. The Rev. Thomas Platt, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, is the curate. A new rectory house has been recently erected. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is a curious old rubble-stone edifice, in mixed style, with belfry and three bells. It was beautifully restored in 1849 at the expense of the late Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., and some improvements were made in the chancel in 1865 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It has nave, chancel, sedilia, piscina, font, harmonium, two ancient brasses, and several monuments, one of which is to the memory of the late Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P.; there is also a handsome stained glass memorial window to the above gentleman, erected by subscription amongst the parishioners. The register commences with the year 1714.

There is a national school for boys and girls, with residence for the master, erected at a cost of £800, to which a class-room was added in 1874 by Sir J.R. Bailey, Bart., at a further cost of £200. It is under government inspection. School accommodation is now provided for about 100 children. Easton Court, the seat of Edward Otto Partridge, Esq., J.P., is a modern stone mansion, pleasantly situated, and surrounded by extensive ornamental grounds. Upton is a township distant about 1 mile S. of the church. The population in 1861 was 98; in 1871, 109; inhabited houses, 19. Upton Court, the property and residence of William Lane, Esq., is of the Elizabethan period. The manor of Upton became the property of Mr. Lane in 1839. Middleton (formerly called Dirty Middleton) is a hamlet distant 1 mile N. of the church.