WORMBRIDGE is a small parish and village situated on Worm brook, and on the main road leading from Hereford to Abergavenny, and at the entrance of the Golden valley; is distant 8½ miles S.W. of Hereford, 16 N.E. of Abergavenny, 15 N.W. of Monmouth, and about 1 mile S.W. of St. Devereux station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West Midland section). It is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Ewyas Harold polling district, and Hereford county court district. The population in 186 was 91; in 1871, 110; inhabited houses, 19; families or separate occupiers, 20; area of parish, 720 acres; annual rateable value, £1,095. The Rev. Archer Clive, of Whitfield, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, limestone; chief crops, wheat, barley, roots, &c. The parish contains a great deal of valuable wood, which is principally oak. Wormbridge is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a perpetual curacy, with the rectory of St. Devereux annexed; joint value, £305, inclusive of 56 acres of glebe; patron, Rev. Archer Clive, M.A.; rector, Rev. David John George, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1837, and resides at Trelough, in St. Devereux parish. The church is an ancient stone edifice in the Norman style of architecture, with nave, chancel, porch, and square tower containing one bell. The tower was rebuilt and the church restored in 1858, at a cost of £1,300. There is a district national school for the accommodation of the children of Wormbridge, St. Devereux, Treville, and Kenderchurch. It is under government inspection, and has a certificated master, with an average attendance of 45 children.