FROOME (CASTLE), a parish in the hundred of
RADLOW, county of HEREFORD, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from
Ledbury, containing 180 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford,
rated in the king's books at £5. 13. 4., and in the
patronage of Francis Freeman, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Michael. The river Froome runs
through the parish, in which there is a considerable
quantity of limestone, also stone for building.