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Herefordshire
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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 mi

Towns and cities

Hereford (administrative headquarters), Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury

Features

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 carvings

Industries

agriculture, orchards and cider industry, agricultural services and machinery, precision engineering, light engineering, plastics manufacture

Population

(2001) 174,900

Famous people

Walter Map (12th-century author), John Masefield (poet)
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