Canon Pyon, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Canon-Pyon, a parish in Herefordshire, 4½ miles SE of Weobley, and 5 WNW of Moreton-on-Lug station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway. It has a post office under Hereford; money order office, Wellington; telegraph office, Weobley. Acreage, 3749; population, 611. The Great House and Pyon House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; value, £259. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church, which was restored in 1870, is partly Norman and Early English, and has a large old font and a screen.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Canon-Pion St. Lawrence | |
Hundred | Grimsworth | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Canon Pyon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Canon-Pion (St. Lawrence))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Canon Pyon are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online: