Stoke Bliss, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"STOKE-BLISS, a parish partly in the hundred of Broxash, county Hereford, and partly in the upper division of Doddingtree hundred, county Worcester, 5 miles S.E. of Tenbury, its post town, and 6 N. of Bromyard. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated on the road from Tenbury to Bromyard. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Kyre. The land is partly in hop-grounds. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Hereford, value £374, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The parochial charities produce about £21 per annum."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]