YARPOLE, a parish, with two townships, in Leominister district, Hereford; 1¾ mile W by N of Berrington and Eye r. station, and 5 NNW of Leominster. It has a post-office under Leominster. Acres, 2,523. Real property, £3,662. Pop., 630. Houses, 133. The manor belongs to the Rev. W. T. K. Davies. Highwood house, Bircher Hall, Bycroft, and the Knoll, are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Croft. The church was recently restored. There are a Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £7.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))