[3] In 1858 and 1909 Pudleston is described as a civil parish which included the hamlet of Brockmanton and the township of Whyle, with scattered population, on the north of the road (a turnpike in 1858), from Leominster to Worcester, with its boundary at the south formed by the Humber Brook, and about 2.5 miles (4 km) north-east from Steens Bridge station on the Leominster, Bromyard and Ledbury and Worcester section of the Great Western Railway.

St Peter's Church, which had been rebuilt in 1813, comprised a chancel, a nave of three bays and a clerestory, aisles, a south porch, and four bells, one of which was previously in the parish hamlet of Whyle, in a "low" western tower with a spire.

The living was in the gift of Elias Chadwick of Pudleston Court in 1858, and George Ernest Wright JP in 1909 who was the lord of the manor, the chief parish landowner, and also of Pudleston Court which was described as a "handsome modern mansion, in the castellated style, standing on an eminence in a beautifully undulating park of over 200 acres (81 ha), ornamented with shrubberies, plantations and sheets of water," and "commanding "beautiful and extensive views of a rich agricultural county, and the Welsh mountains."

Whyle, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north-west from the church, is noted as once containing an "ancient" chapel dedicated to St John, its site being within an orchard but of which no trace remained.

At the southern edge of the parish is the farmhouse of Ford Abbey, which had been in religious possession connected to Leominster Priory; in 1858 there remained evidence of a chapel.

Land of one acre had been bought in 1873 for £56 by the chief landowner of Brockmanton, the rector, and churchwardens to build a school "for the education of poor persons in the parish of Pudleston in the principles of the Church of England."

He bought Puddleston Court, an English country house, in 1845 after the death of its previous owner, the rector of Pudleston and curate of the adjacent parish of Hatfield.

Over the following two years Chadwick rebuilt the house, in pink sandstone with a battlemented roof line, to the designs of Liverpool architect J.T.

[14] The parish is rural, of farms, fields, managed woodland and coppices, streams, ponds, isolated and dispersed businesses and residential properties, and the nucleated settlements of Pudleston village at the centre, and the hamlets of Whyle at the north and Brockmanton at the west.

[13][19] 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 Pudleston 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, 4.5 miles (7 km) to the west.

A craft windsor chair and furniture maker operates at Brockmanton, and a civil engineering contractors company, and an Industrial equipment supplier are based at the extreme north-east of the parish.

[28] The closest rail connections are at Leominster railway station, 4 miles (6 km) to the west, on the Crewe to Newport Welsh Marches Line which also serves Hereford railway station, 13 miles (21 km) to the south, with further connections to Oxford on the Cotswold Line, and to Birmingham provided by West Midlands Trains .

One bell is from the previous chapel at Whyle, inscribed with "Johannes amice xpe," and another with "Sancte Petre ora pro nobis" (Saint Peter pray for us), both 15th century from the Worcester foundry.

[30][31] Pudleston Court, Grade II and 800 yards (730 m) south-west from the church, is an English country house of two-storeys with attic in Tudor-Gothic style built for Elias Chadwick, and begun in 1846 by Liverpool architect J.T.

The interior is 19th century, with principal rooms around a central hall with panel ceiling and an inglenook within a Jacobethan style chimneypiece.