BIRLEY is a small parish and village, distant 5 miles S.W. of Leominster, 4 E. of Weobley, and 10 N.W. of Hereford; in Stretford hundred, Weobley union, petty sessional division, and polling district, and Leominster county court district. The population in 1861 was 190; in 1871, 180; inhabited houses, 36; families or separate occupiers, 37; area of parish, 973a. 0r. 13p.; annual rateable value, £1,385. Thomas Croose Parry, Esq. (the lord of the manor), John Griffiths Alford, Esq., Mrs. Martha Taylor, and the trustees of the late Thomas Martin, Esq., are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, limestone; chief crops, the usual cereals, fruit, and hops. Some good cider is made here. The living is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of Leominster; it is a vicarage with King's Pyon annexed; joint value, £384, with about 19 acres of glebe; patron, Major Daniel Peploe-Peploe, M.P., of Garnstone castle; vicar, Rev. Hanmer William Webb-Peploe, B.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1866. Birley tithes are commuted at £128 yearly, with 13 acres of glebe. The church of St. Peter was rebuilt in 1874 at a cost of £1,330, chiefly raised by subscription. It was reopened August 20th, 1874. The children of this parish attend King's Pyon and Upper Hill schools.