 Upton Bishop was featured on TV when Phil and Alison Clarke chose their home on the Channel 4 programme "Location, Location, Location" with Phil Spencer and Kirsty Allsop advising them.The manor of Upton Bishop formed a part of the possessions of the Bishops of Hereford from the time of the Saxon Kings to the accession of Queen Elizabeth I.

Francis Tebbs Havergal was vicar of Upton Bishop from 1874.He wrote music, books on the history of Hereford Cathedral and a most comprehensive treatise on Upton Bishop in 1883, entitled "Records Historical and Antiquarian of The Parish of Upton Bishop".