KEMPLEY, a parish in the hundred of BOTLOE, county of GLOUCESTER, 5½ miles (N.W. by N.) from Newent, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and diocese of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 6½, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, as masters of Ledbury Hospital. The church is in the Norman style. There is a small endowment for the instruction of children, the bequest of Elizabeth Pyndar in 1755.