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Herefordshire Towns & Parishes

CANON PYON

Biography

• Benjamin TOMKINS the Younger, one of the founding fathers of the Hereford Cattle Breed, was baptised at Canon Pyon on 30 June 1745, the son of Benjamin TOMKINS the Elder & Anne. For further information on Hereford Cattle see the Hereford Web Pages.

Church History

• Photograph of St. Laurence' Church, Canon Pyon.

Church Records

• Extracts from the Canon Pyon Parish Registers for the period 1662-1689, 1690-1709, 1711-1724, 1725-1754, 1756-1767, 1768-1797, 1800-1809 and 1818-1843, transcribed by Stephen Karner.

Directories

• A Description of Canon Pyon and Directory of Private and Commercial Residents transcribed from Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire, 1876-7 by Marion Wilkinson.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Canon Pyon from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

Names, Geographical

• "A Dictionary of English Place Names" by A.D. Mills (Oxford) gives:-

  "Pyon, Canon & Kings, Heref. & Worcs.
  Pionie 1086 DB (=Domesday Book)   Pyone canonicorum 1221.  King's Pyon 1285.
  'Island infested with gnats or other insects.'   OE (Old English) pie (genitive plural peona) + ëg"
  The Distinguishing affix 'Canon' derives from early possession by the Canons of Hereford.

  In other sources, ëg is translated as 'land between streams', rather than 'island' - c.f. "Place Names of Derbyshire" and derivation of Eyam, from the dative plural ëgum.

Names, Personal

• A list of Canon Pyon Vicars (1300-1988), taken from a board inside the Church.