Orleton
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For the locality Orleton, Worcestershire, see Stanford-on-Teme
Orleton is a village in northern Herefordshire, England, at grid reference SO493672, about 7 km north of Leominster.
Norman font
The village is known for its parish church, St George's, where, legend holds, the resurrection of the dead will begin at the Last Trump. Items of interest in the church include:
- a twelfth-century font, characteristic of the Herefordshire School of Norman carving
- a Jacobean pulpit
- a clock dating from about 1700
- a Norman carving of a dragon, later used as a clock weight
- two thirteenth-century dug-out chests.
The Welsh Marches railway line runs south-east of the village and the Woofferton transmitting station lies to the north-east.
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Coordinates: 52°18′02″N 2°44′42″W / 52.30057°N 2.74492°W
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