BIRCH (MUCH), a parish in the upper division
of the hundred of WORMELOW, county of HEREFORD,
6 miles (S. by W.) from Hereford, containing 353 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Much Dewchurch, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Hereford, endowed with £600
royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Wormelow, from which the hundred takes its name,
is within this parish.