Canon Frome, Herefordshire

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.