 Upton Bishop is a large parish and village situated on the borders of Gloucestershire, on the upper road between Hereford and Gloucester, and on the main road from Ross to Newent; is distant north east of Ross, west of Newent, south east of Hereford, and west north west of Gloucester; is in Greytree hundred, Ross union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Linton polling district.The population in 1861 was 716; in 1871, 716; inhabited houses, 150; families or separate occupiers, 166; area of parish, ; annual rateable value, £5,069.Courtenay Connell Prance, Esq., of Hatherley court, Cheltenham, is lord of the manor.