Description
Norton Canon, a scattered parish in Herefordshire. The village stands 1 mile NW of Moorhampton station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon section of the M.R., 3 1/2. miles SSW of Weobly, and has a post office under Weobly (R.S. 0.) ; money order and telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. The parish comprises 2148 acres ; population, 281. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £140 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church is ancient, and was partially rebuilt in 1706; the nave was restored in 1868 and the chancel repaired in 1876. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
