Description
Lucton, a parish in Herefordshire, near the river Lugg, 2 1/4 miles NNW of Kingsland station on the Leominster and Kington branch of the G.W.R., and 7 NW of Leominster. Post town, Kingsland (R.S 0.) Acreage, 1051; population, 204. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford ; gross value, £204. Patrons, the Governors of Lucton School. The church was rebuilt in 1852. Pierrepont's Free Grammar School was founded in 1708, has an endowment of £1800, and is conducted under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners. Additional buildings were erected in 1885.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
