UPTON BISHOP. UPTON BISHOP, WITH CRow HILL, UPTON CREws, PHoCLE GREEN, & FISHPOOLS . • UPTON BISHOP is a large parish and village situated on the borders of , on the upper road between and Glouces­ ter, and on the main road from Ross to ; the church is distant 4 miles N.E. of Ross, 5! W. of Newent, 13 S.E. of Hereford, and I3 W.N.W. of ; is in Greytree hundred, Ross union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and King's Caple and Upton Bishop polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in r87I was 716; in r88r, 696; inhabited houses, 142; families or separate occupiers, 152; area of parish, 3,8r6 acres; annual rateable value, £4,371. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, r884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Much Marcle, in Ledbury union, was amalgamated with U pton Bishop, and a detached part of U pton Bishop was amalga­ mated with Brampton Abbotts. Courtenay C. Prance, Esq., of Hatherley court, , who is lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, Lady Coutts Lindsay, Lieut.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle, the Trustees of the late T. Mills, Esq., Thomas Powell, Esq., and Mrs. Ann Jones, are the principal landowners. The soil is a red loam ; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, fruit, &c. U pton Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross; living, a vicarage; value, £225, with residence and 191 acres of glebe; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Francis Tebbs Havergal, D.D., of New College, Oxford, who was instituted in r874, and is also prebendary of Colwall in . The church, dedi· cated to St. Yohn the Baptz''st was re-opened on July 25th, 186z, after having been restored under the superintendence of the late Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A., at an expense of £r ,Boo, raised by volun­ tary contributions and grants. The church consists of nave, chancels, aisles, porch, and square tower containing an excellent peal of six bells. The pavements are of God win's encaustic tiles. An organ, by Nicholson, of Worcester, was erected in r874 on the north side of the chancel, at the sole cost of the present vicar. In 188o a new vestry was erected on the south side of the chancel, and a new treble bell added to the peal in memory of Frances Ridley Havergal, the younger sister of the vicar. Upwards of £soo was expended about this time on new seats, repair of roofs, and other improvements. There are several stained glass memorial windows. The east window is by Hardman ; subject, "Jesus appearing to Mary in the garden," to the memory of the Rev. James Garbett, vicar of the parish 1840-57· North chancel, by Wailes; subject, "Zacharias and Elizabeth," to the memory of Dr. Gretton and his wife, formerly dean of Hereford, and vicar of the parish r8ro-2o. North nave, by Clayton & Bell; subject, "Raising of Jairus's daughter," to the memory of Maude, daughter of the late Henry Chellingworth, Esq., of Grendon court. East aisle, by Hardman ; subject, "The Good Samaritan," to the memory of Mr. Charles Prosser. South aisle, by Hardman ; memorial window