UPPER SAPEY is a scattered parish, pleasantly situated near the borders of Worcestershire, on the romantic Sapey brook, and on the main road from Bromyard to Kidderminster. It is distant 7 miles N. of Bromyard, 8 S.E. of Tenbury, 14 N.W. of Worcester, 14 S.W. of Kidderminster, 20 N.E. of Hereford, and 7 N.N.W. of Sapey bridge (Whitbourne). The nearest railway station is at Knightwick on the Worcester and Bromyard railway. The parish is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and High Lane (Tedstone Wafer) polling district. The population in 1861 was 357; in 1871, 383; inhabited houses, 82; families or separate occupiers, 82; area of parish, 2,159a. 0r. 10p.; annual rateable value, £2,405. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, rock and clay; chief produce, wheat, barley, hops, fruit, &c. Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, Bart., of Stanford court, Worcestershire, who is lord of the manor, William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe castle, the trustees of the late Thomas H. Newman, Esq., and the Rev. Edward Addenbrooke, are the principal landowners. Upper Sapey is in the diocese of Hereford, archdeaconry of Ludlow, and rural deanery of Burford East; living, a rectory; value, £298, with residence and 40 acres of glebe; patron, Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, Bart.; rector, Rev. Phipps Onslow, B.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1859. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a handsome edifice in the Norman style, with small tower (containing one bell), neat spire, nave, chancel, porch, font, and about 100 sittings, all of which are free and unappropriated. It was entirely restored in 1860 at a cost of 1,200. The east window is filled with stained glass as a memorial to the late Mr. Towers. A new school, to accommodate about 70 children, has just been erected here. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £21 yearly. There is a small dissenting chapel. High House, the residence of ___ Chamberlain, Esq., is pleasantly situated.