PRESTON WYNNE is a small parish and village situated about half a mile N.W. of the main road from Hereford to Bromyard, 6 miles N.E. of Hereford, 8½ S.W. of Bromyard, 10 S.S.E. of Leominster, and about 3 N. of Withington station on the Worcester and Hereford railway; is in Broxash hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Bodenham polling district. The population in 1861 was 182; in 1871, 172; inhabited houses, 39; families or separate occupiers, 39; area of parish, 864 acres; annual rateable value, £1,479. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Daniel and Samuel Wood, Esqs., of Glossop, Derbyshire, James Farmer, Esq., Mrs. Builth, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Rev. Henry T. Hill, of Felton rectory. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, clay; chief produce, wheat, hops, beans, fruit, &c. Preston Wynne is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a vicarage; value, £74, with 91 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Henry Thomas Hill, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1858, and is also rector of Felton, prebendary of Nunnington in Hereford cathedral, and rural dean of North Froome.

The Rev. F.C. Green, M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is the curate in sole charge. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built A.D. 1727-30, and restored in 1858. It has a square tower with four pinnacles and one bell. There is a marble monument to the memory of Mrs. Henrietta Pugh. An additional window on the north side has been restored more recently, texts painted on the walls, and the sacrarium entirely paved with encaustic tiles, at the sole cost of the vicar. The register begins with the year 1740. There is an endowment of 6 acres of land, left by the late Mrs. Henrietta Pugh (of Great Baddow, Essex, for furnishing clothing to the poor. The school, with teacher's residence, was erected by the vicar on his own land in 1870, at a cost of about £320. It will accommodate 36 children of this parish and the adjoining parish of Felton.