On 1 April 2019, the parishes of Kenderchurch, St Devereux, Treville and Wormbridge were merged with Kilpeck.

[4] The English name for the village derives from the Welsh name, Llanddewi Kil Peddeg,[5] with Llanddewi meaning "church of St David" and Cil Peddeg probably meaning the "cell of Pedic", an otherwise unknown local early Christian hermit.

[6] In the Domesday Book of 1086, Kilpeck (entered as Chipeete) was given by William the Conqueror to William Fitz Norman de la Mare, son of Norman de la Mare.

The clan de la Mare is one of the oldest in Normandy and is descended from Ragnvald Eysteinsson, earl of Møre and Romsdal.

It is remarkable for its wealth of Norman stone carvings (and their fine state of preservation), both inside and out,[7] all original both in form and position and incorporating many corbels with representations of human faces, hares, fish, fowl, stags etc.