GRENDON (BISHOPS), a parish in the hundred
of BROXASH, county of HEREFORD, 4 miles (W. N. W.)
from Bromyard, containing 212 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Hereford, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and
£200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Vicar of Bromyard. The church, dedicated to St. John
the Baptist, was rebuilt in 1788, at the expense of six
individuals of the parish, the old edifice having fallen
down in 1786. There are vestiges of an ancient intrenchment
in the vicinity, said to be Danish.