Herefordshire
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Locator map for the English administrative region of Hertfordshire.
Unitary authority in west England, created in 1998 from part of the former county of Hereford and Worcester.
Area
2,288 sq km/884 sq miTowns and cities
Hereford (administrative headquarters), Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, LedburyFeatures
River Wye; Herefordshire Beacon (340 m/1,115 ft) Iron Age fort; Hereford Cathedral (11th century) houses the late 13th/early 14th-century Mappa Mundi, and the Chained Library, with over 1,400 chained books and 200 manuscripts dating from the 8th to 12th centuries; Waterworks Museum (Hereford) in restored Victorian pump house; Croft Castle (14th–15th centuries, Leominster); St Mary's Church (1095, Kempley) with medieval wall paintings; The Prospect, a walled clifftop garden in Ross-on-Wye designed by John Kyrle in the 17th century; Norman Church (Kilpeck) with notable carvingsIndustries
agriculture, orchards and cider industry, agricultural services and machinery, precision engineering, light engineering, plastics manufacturePopulation
(2001) 174,900Famous people
Walter Map (12th-century author), John Masefield (poet)How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
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