In 1858 and 1909 Pudleston is described as a civil parish which included the hamlet of Brockmanton and the township of Whyle, with scattered population, on the north of the road (a turnpike in 1858), from Leominster to Worcester, with its boundary at the south formed by the Humber Brook, and about 2 miles north-east from Steens Bridge station on the Leominster, Bromyard and Ledbury and Worcester section of the Great Western Railway.