Description
Byton, a parish in Herefordshire, on the river Lugg, near Shobdonhill Wood, 4 miles NNW of Pembridge station on the G.W.R., and 4 E of Presteign, which is the post town (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Shobdon. Acreage, 959; population, 132. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford ; net value, £98. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built in 1860, and is a cruciform structure in the Early English style. The previous church was burned. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
