Description
Canon-Pyon, a parish in Herefordshire, 4 1/2 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 and Wales, 1894-5
