WACTON is a small parish situated about midway between the Bromyard and Tenbury and the Bromyard and Leominster roads, distant 3½ miles N.W. of Bromyard, 9 S. of Tenbury, 8½ E. of Leominster, and 16 N.E. of Hereford; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, polling district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1861 was 123; in 1871, 137; inhabited houses, 27; families or separate occupiers, 29; area of parish, 1,002 acres; annual rateable value, £1,081. The Right Hon. Earl Somers, of Eastnor castle, is lord of the manor; and W. Henry Barneby, Esq., of Bredenbury court, William Lacon Childe, Esq., of Kinlet ball, near Bewdley, Martin Curtler, Esq., of Worcester, Mr. Richard Timings, and the Executors of the late Richard Allison, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, hops, oats, fruit, &c. Wacton is a vicarage, in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Froome. This parish has been recently united (under 1 and 2 Vict. c. 106), for ecclesiastical purposes, with the parish of Bredenbury, and a new church is now in course of erection in Bredenbury to provide sufficient accommodation for the inhabitants of the united parishes. The old church is still standing. The parish register begins with the year 1750. There is a board school at Bredenbury for the parishes of Grendon Bishop, Bredenbury, and Wacton.