Eastnor is the first parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire and complements some of the work on Ledbury undertaken for the Heritage Lotteryfunded Englands Past for Everyone project between 2005 and 2009. In its expanded treatment of the parish history emphasising the economy and society of the parish as well as landownership and religious life Eastnor is modelled on the first individual VCH parish history to be published that of Mapledurwell Hampshire in 2012.Eastnor lies at the southern end of the Malvern Hills and has always been an agricultural parish. In the 19th and 20th centuries it was dominated by the Castle built between 1812 and 1820 and by its owners the Somers Cocks family Barons and later Earls Somers and their descendants.