The parish contains the remains of Uphampton Camp, a probable Iron Age hillfort, and the Church of St Bartholomew, in part dating to the 12th and 13th century.

St Bartholomew's Church, is noticed as an "edifice in Early English style" with a "low" western tower with spire and a bell, a chancel and nave sharing the same roof, and a south porch.

In 1880 the whole of the church except for the lower part of the tower and the north wall was "pulled down", and rebuilt at a cost of £1.100, to the designs of Thomas Nicholson, which included a new stained glass east window.

The parish, with a 1901 population of 158, had an area of 1,285 acres (520 ha) of clay soil over a subsoil of gravel and rock, on which were grown wheat, barley, oats, hops and apples.

Commercial trades and occupations included three farmers, one of whom was also a hop grower, two bailiffs, a carpenter who was also a pump manufacturer, a blacksmith who was also the parish sexton, and the licensee of the King's Head public house.

[4] Docklow was a focal point in the investigation of the murder of Simon Dale in 1987 when Dale's ex-wife, Baroness Susan de Stempel, who lived in a rented cottage in the village, was visited and questioned by police who also discovered de Stempel had been defrauding and robbing the estate of her aunt, Lady Margaret Illingworth, whom she invited to live here on pretext of a holiday before sending her on to a residential home where she had died in 1986.

[6] Adjacent parishes are Leominster at the north-west, Pudleston at the north, Hatfield and Newhampton at the north-east, Grendon Bishop at the south-east, Humber at the south, and Ford and Stoke Prior at the west.

Flowing from the north-east and through the north of the parish is the Humber Brook, a tributary of the River Lugg which it joins 3 miles (5 km) to the south-west.

[6] Pudleston is represent in the UK parliament as part of the North Herefordshire constituency, held by the Conservative Party since 2010 by Bill Wiggin.

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

For secondary education the parish falls within the catchment area of Earl Mortimer College at Leominster, 3.5 miles (6 km) to the west.

[18] At 800 yards (732 m) west from the church and north from the A44, is a lake complex, specialising in recreational angling, which includes a tackle shop, holiday cottage accommodation and The Fisherman's Arms public house.

[20] The closest rail connections are at Leominster railway station, 3 miles (5 km) to the west, on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line which also serves Hereford railway station, 12 miles (20 km) to the south, with further connections to Oxford on the Cotswold Line, and to Birmingham provided by West Midlands Trains.

[21][22] The Grade II* Church of St Bartholomew (listed on 11 June 1959), dates to the 12th and 13th century and was largely rebuilt by Thomas Nicholson in 1880.

The two-stage tower roof is pyramidic with a shingled octagonal broach spire, the north and west walls of the belfry stage with louvered abat-son, the south with a clock face.