Description
Eaton-Bishop, a village and a parish in Herefordshire, near the river Wye, 5 1/4 miles W by S of Hereford. There is a post office; money order office, Madley; telegraph office. Hereford. Acreage, 1660; population of the civil parish, 360: of the ecclesiastical, 431. Lower Eaton, Sugwas Court, and Cagebrook are the chief residences. At Sugwas was formerly a palace of the Bishops of Hereford. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £312 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Hereford. The church was originally Norman, and was restored in 1886; it retains portions of Early English and Decorated work. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Plymouth Brethren chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
