STOKE BLISS is a parish partly in the county of Hereford, and partly in that of Worcester, distant 6 miles S.E. of Tenbury, 6 N. of Bromyard, 12 E.N.E. of Leominster, and 21 N.N.E. of Hereford; is chiefly in Broxash hundred, but partly in Upper Doddingtree hundred (Worcestershire), Tenbury union and county court district, Bromyard petty sessional division, and High Lane (Tedstone Wafer) polling district. The total population in 1861 was 298; in 1871, 334, viz., Stoke Bliss, 197, and Little Kyre, 137. The total number of inhabited houses was 75, viz,, Stoke Bliss, 45, and Little Kyre, 30. The total number of families or separate occupiers was 78, viz., Stoke Bliss, 48, and Little Kyre, 30. The area of the parish is 2,078 acres, viz., Stoke Bliss, 1,148, and Little Kyre, 930. William Lacon Childe, Esq., of Kinlet hall, near Bewdley, is lord of the manor and principal landowner; Mr. Herbert is also a landowner here. The soil is loamy clay; subsoil, pure clay and marl; chief produce, wheat, peas, beans, hops, and fruit. Stoke Bliss is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Froome; living, a rectory; value, £449, including residence and 75 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Chancellor; rector, Rev. Godfrey Edward Alexander, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1865. The church is an Early English structure, of stone, with nave, chancel, south aisle, and tower containing three bells, spire and clock. The fabric was restored in 1852 at a cost of £650. The east and west windows are filled with stained glass. The parish register goes back to the year 1571. A new and handsome district elementary school was built in 1873 at a cost of £1,000, for the accommodation of the children of Stoke Bliss, Kyre Wyard, Hanley Childe, and portions of the parishes of Collington, Great Kyre, &c. It is supported by voluntary subscriptions. The average attendance of boys and girls is about 60. Kyre Parva, or Little Kyre, a hamlet of Stoke Bliss, is wholly in Worcestershire, and comprises 930 acres. It is in Tenbury polling district and petty sessional division.