Yazor, Herefordshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"YAZOR, a parish and township in the hundred of Grimsworth, county Hereford, 4 miles S. of Weobly, and 8 from Hereford. The village is situated on the road from Hereford to Kington and Aberystwith. The surface is undulating and well wooded. There are quarries of limestone and freestone in the hills. The soil is loamy, and the subsoil clay. The principal residence is Foxley, late the seat of Sir R. Price, Bart., who was lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Hereford, value £188. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, was rebuilt in 1855. It has five stained windows, and carved oak pulpit and reading desk. There is a National school."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]