Grendon Bishop, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"GRENDON-BISHOP, a parish in the hundred of Broxash, county Hereford, 4 miles N.W. of Bromyard, its post town, and 7 S.E. of Leominster. The main road between the above towns passes through the village. Hops are grown. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Hereford, value £59, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bromyard. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a stone edifice, rebuilt towards the close of the last century. There are a few small charities. In the neighbourhood are traces of an ancient camp, supposed to be Danish."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]