Vowchurch

{{Short description|Village in Herefordshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|official_name = Vowchurch

|coordinates = {{coord|52.023|-2.933|display=inline,title}}

|country = England

| static_image = Vowchurch - geograph.org.uk - 763414.jpg

| static_image_caption = Vowchurch

|constituency_westminster = Hereford & South Herefordshire

|post_town = HEREFORD

|postcode_area = HR

|postcode_district = HR2

|dial_code = 01981

|os_grid_reference = SO3636

|unitary_england = Herefordshire

|lieutenancy_england = Herefordshire

|region = West Midlands

|population = 176

}}

Vowchurch is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated in the Golden Valley, on the River Dore. The village is about {{convert|10|mi}} southwest of Hereford. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 163, increasing to 176 according to the 2011 census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130049&c=HR2+0QB&d=16&e=62&g=6385895&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1446207657001&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=30 October 2015}}

The place-name 'Vowchurch' is first attested in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291, where it appears as Fowchirche. The name means 'multi-coloured church', from the Old English fāg meaning 'multi-coloured'. The same derivation is found in Frome Vauchurch in Dorset.Eilert Ekwall,The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.489.

File:St Bartholomew, Vowchurch - geograph.org.uk - 3523182.jpg

The Grade I listed parish church of St Bartholomew[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/vowchurch-st-bartholomew/ Vowchurch: St Bartholomew - a church near you] serves a large ecclesiastical parish.

The village was served by Vowchurch railway station from 1881 to 1949.