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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyHerefordshire 
Ecclesiastical parishCanon-Pion St. Lawrence 
HundredGrimsworth 
Poor Law unionWeobley 

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:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Herefordshire newspapers online:

CountyHerefordshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtHR4
Post TownHereford

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