Sentence:  In 1916 he was Rector of Hampton Bishop, a village on the River Wye outside Hereford, and one day while “<WSD>parishing</WSD>”, as he called visiting his flock, a farmers' wife, a Mrs. Christopher Field, gave him an account of her father's death-bed; ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To visit residents of a parish.