Canon Frome, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Canon Frome, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Frome, 2 miles N of Ashperton station, on the G.W.R., and 6 NW by N of Ledbury, under which there is a post office; money order office, The Trumpet; telegraph office, Bosbury. Acreage of the civil parish, 1053; population, 114; of the ecclesiastical, 284. Canon Frome Court, the seat of the Hopton family, is a handsome brick mansion of the 18th century, replacing the old manor house, which was garrisoned for Charles I., and taken in 1645 after a vigorous resistance. The living is a rectory with the rectory of Munsley annexed in the diocese of Hereford; joint net value, £250 with residence. The church was built in 1861, is in the Early English style, with richly decorated chancel and marble reredos, and retains the tower of a previous church of Queen Anne's reign. Munsley church, restored in 1861, retains its ancient features. It has a curious Saxon inscription on a stone, and a chest cut out of a solid tree.
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 Froome St. James | |
| Hundred | Radlow | |
| Poor Law union | Ledbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Canon Frome from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Froome, Canon (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Canon Frome 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: