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.