Description
Ashperton, a parish in Herefordshire, near the river Frome, 5 miles NW of Ledbury. It has a station on the G.W.R. Post town, Canon Frome Gate; money order office, Tarrington; telegraph office, Bosbury. Acreage, 1692; population of the civil parish, 362; of the ecclesiastical district, 608. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Stretton-Grandison, in the diocese of Hereford. The church is an ancient edifice, with an embattled tower added at its restoration in 1840. Ashperton parish is part of the parish of Stretton-Grandison, Ashperton church being described as a chapelry.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
