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"FROOME (CANON), a parish in the hundred of RADLOW, county of HEREFORD, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Ledbury, containing 105 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. John Hopton. The church is dedicated to St. James. The river Froome bounds the parish on the north." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Helme, Judy - Hops 'n' Hoptons - A History of Canon Frome, Herefordshire.
Published as a limited edition in 2001, and digitally printed by Parchment (Oxford) Ltd, this 120-page booklet may be available by Inter-Library Loan. There are brief summaries of pre-history, the Roman period, and Medieval times but most of the book relates to the past 200 years. Its chapter headings are:-- Canon Frome Village, pp4-20
- Canon Frome Court and the Hoptons, pp21-33
- Canon Frome School, pp34-43
- Canon Frome Court & The Windflower Housing Association pp44-54
- The Church of St James, pp55-60
- Heath and Home, pp61-107
- Remember When...? 108-119.
- Transcription of section of Post Office Directory of Herefordshire for Canon Frome in 1863, by Barbara Haner.
- The transcription of the section for Canon Frome from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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