FROOME (BISHOPS), a parish in the hundred of RADLOW, county of HEREFORD, comprising the townships of Bishop's Froome, Eggleton, Halmonds-Froome, Leadon, and Walton, and containing 897 inhabitants, of which number, 298 are in the township of Bishop's Froome, 4 miles (s. by E.) from Bromyard. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and. dioceseof Hereford, rated in the king's books at £8. 5. 10., and in the patronage of the Rev. John Hoptoii. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is an endowed free school.