It includes the largely depopulated village settlements of Brinsop and Wormsley, and is approximately 6 miles (10 km) north-west from the city and county town of Hereford.

In 1066 Earl Harold was the lord of Brinsop, lordship transferred in 1086 to Richard, with Alfred of Marlborough [Alured de Merleberg], as tenant-in-chief to king William I.

Brinsop Court, a half a mile north from the church, was described as an ancient mansion, that had "evidently been an old monastery, and is surrounded by a deep moat".

[9][10] St George's church at Brinsop was described as "an ancient structure, the foundation dating from the time of King Stephen", and a small stone building, of a three-bay nave, chancel, north aisle, south porch, and a turret with three bells.

On the nave north wall interior were noted "several interesting sculptures", and in the chancel, "two marble monuments" dedicated to members of the Dansey family, who formerly lived at Brinsop Court.

The living was a perpetual curracy, worth £75 yearly, with 4 acres (1.6 hectares) of glebe land, in the gift of Sir William Rouse-Boughton.

Brinsop parish area was now 1,364 acres (552 hectares), on which was grown wheat, barley, oats, peas, some hops, on a soil now said to be clayey with strong loam, over a subsoil of clay, gravel and limestone.

[11] In the 1880s Brinsop ecclesiastical parish was in the rural deanery of Weston, Wormsley, that of Weobley, and in both the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford.

One principal landowner and lord of the manor of Brinsop was Major (later Colonel, DSO) Henry George Ricardo (1860 - 1940) of Gatcombe Park, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, the great-grandson of the economist David Ricardo; while one of Wormsley was still Andrew Rouse-Boughton-Knight of Downton castle (Downton Hall) who was also the lord of the manor, churchwarden for St Mary's church, and the owner of Grange House (Wormsley Grange) farm, 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) north-east from St Mary's.

Residents at Brinsop included the parish vicar, who was the prebendary of Cublington in Hereford Cathedral, the churchwarden, schoolmistress, three farmers, a miller, and a farm bailiff.

Resident at Wormsley were the parish vicar, churchwarden and clerk, and four farmers, one of whom also grew hops, a cowkeeper and a farm bailiff.

[12][13] Jakeman & Carver's Directory states the previous view that Wormsley "affords some delightful and extensive scenery, embracing the Malvern hills, in Worcestershire, and the Clee hills, in Shropshire", and gives a more contextual view of the Augustinian priory:A priory of Augustinian, or "Black" canons, of the order of St. Victor—an expansion of a hermitage at Kings Pyon, dedicated to St Leonard de Pyona—was founded here early in the reign of Henry III, if not in that of John, his predecessor.

Sir Walter de Map was lord of the manor in the time of Henry, and his son Nicholas changed his name to Wormesley, but by whom the priory was founded is uncertain.

Gilbert Talbot, an ancestor of the Earl of Shrewsbury, gave lands to it in the time of Edward I., when the overthrow of the religious houses was in contemplation.

Walter Map, or Mapes, archdeacon of Oxford, and incumbent of Westbury in the Forest of Dean, was perhaps of the same family as the lord of Wormesley above mentioned, but at an earlier period.

He was a person of great importance in the 12th century, and a special favourite of Henry H. He was the author of several satirical poems, especially one entitled Golias, in which he attacks the clergy in general, and especially the Cistercian monks, with some of whom, his neighbours at Flaxby abbey, he was often at variance.

"The vicarage living at St George's Brinsop received a rent charge £107, augmented by a Queen Anne's Bounty of £87 yearly, under the patronage of the Lord Bishop of Hereford, with glebe land now increased 127 acres (51 hectares).

The church had been completely restored in 1866–67 at a cost of nearly £900, and included a "beautifully carved oak reredos" which was added in 1872 at the expense of the parish vicar.

[14] The civil parish of Brinsop and Wormsley is in west Herefordshire, and approximately 6 miles (10 km) north-west from the city and county town of Hereford.

[15][16][17][18][19] The parish is rural, of farm complexes, fields, managed woodland and coppices, streams, ponds, lakes, isolated and dispersed businesses and residential properties.

[22][23] Brinsop and Wormsley is represented in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

In 1974, the separate parishes of Brinsop and Wormsley became part of the now defunct Leominster District of the county of Hereford and Worcester, instituted under the 1972 Local Government Act.

[24] In 2002 the now united Brinsop and Wormsley parish, with the parishes of Bishopstone, Bridge Sollers, King's Pyon, Byford, Canon Pyon, Dinmore, Mansell Gamage, Mansell Lacy, and Wellington and Yazor, was reassessed as part of Wormsley Ridge Ward which elected one councillor to Herefordshire district council.

[26][27] The closest rail connection is at Hereford 5.5 miles (9 km) to the south-east, on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line.

[29] St George's (grid reference SO4422844790), is a Grade I church in Brinsop, dating to the 12th century, altered in the 13th and 14th, restored first in 1866–67, and then by Ninian Comper in 1919.

The nave and chancel roof (ceiling) is of continuous truss and rafter construction, as is the north aisle, and of the 16th century, with arch bracing "probably late 19th".

On the south wall is a marble monuments to William Dansey (died 1708), "flanked by Composite pilasters with entablatures, curved cornice, drapery, cherubs with shields-of-arms, urns and achievement-of-arms".

Built around a quadrangle, it is a mix of sandstone ashlar, and timber framing with rough-cast infill, and of two storeys and attic, with stone tiled roof and brick chimney stacks.

A rectangular moat surrounds the house, crossed by a stone bridge near south-west corner, a replacement for a previous drawbridge.

[48][50][51][52][53] White House Farmhouse (grid reference SO4378944683), 500 yards (460 m) west-southwest of St George's church, is part of a group of listed buildings and cottages dating to at least the 17th century, possibly earlier to the 15th, but with later alterations, surrounded by 2 acres of gardens and incorporating a medieval fishpond.