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    TOP 10 HEREFORD

    Apr 08, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS KEITH DREW

    The county town of Herefordshire has been shaped by its geography. The area that is now Hereford was first settled due to its proximity to a crossing over the River Wye – Hereford means ‘the ford used by the army’ – and then grew thanks to its position near the border between Anglo-Saxon Mercia and Wales.

    The ongoing battle for control of the region saw the town fortified first against the Welsh Princes and then further against the Danes, when Hereford become one of Alfred the Great’s burghs, a network of defensive settlements

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