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Pendock is a village and civil parish in the Malvern Hills district in the county of Worcestershire, England, situated about halfway between the towns of Tewkesbury and Ledbury. The civil parish constitutes two detached parts, with Lower Pendock containing the main (present-day) village with its church and Pendock CE Primary School and Upper Pendock containing the hamlet of Sledge Green and the old parish church. The parish of Berrow cuts between the two parts of Pendock parish.

The population was recorded at 341 at the 2011 census and was 329 at the previous census in 2001.

The M50 motorway passes through the parish, with the nearest junction being number 2, to the west of Pendock.

The prolific nineteenth-century writer on Worcestershire John Noake, in his 1868 Guide to Worcestershire wrote about Pendock – "PEN" (the head of) "dock" (the dyke), there being a trench extending across the parish to Corse Lawn and Castle Morton, which probably formed a British or Saxon boundary line of certain tribes whose habitat was at the S.E. of the Malvern chain of hills. The parish and its church are sufficiently attractive to an antiquary. Early Norman, if not Saxon, work will be found in the church, which has semicircular doorways, a piscina with triangular head or canopy, portion of chancel arch of same date, the doorway for the rood loft, remains of the screen, cylindrical font, and pre-reformation seats. The site around the church appears to have been once occupied by extensive buildings, and Roman coins have been found on the edge of the dyke.

Pendock Cross church, The Church of the Redeemer, a beautiful wooden building, was built in 1889 as a temporary mission church, but it is still in use today, holding regular services every week.