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Hereford

Hereford is an historic cathedral city in on the river Wye. The county town of , the city lies close to the English border with . A small city, Hereford nonetheless offers a great variety of attractions for the traveller.
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  • Type: City with 58,900 residents
  • Description: cathedral city and county town of Herefordshire, England
  • Also known as: “City of Hereford” and “Hereford, Herefordshire”
  • Postal codes: HR1, HR2, HR3, and HR4

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hereford Cathedral and Edgar Street.

Church
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Ethelbert the King in Hereford, is a Church of England cathedral in Hereford, England.

Stadium
, currently known as MandM Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Hereford and was the home of Hereford United Football Club from the club's formation in 1924 until December 2014, when the club was wound up.

Railway station
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the city of Hereford, in , England. Managed by Transport for Wales, it lies on the Welsh Marches Line, between and ; it is also the western terminus of the Cotswold Line, for services to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lugwardine and Grafton.

Village
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England, to the east of Hereford. It lies on the north-east bank of the , which gives the village its name.

Hamlet
is a village and civil parish in , England. The population of the civil parish was 258 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the villages of and Bullinghope, and is immediately to the south of Hereford city.

Village
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hill, village and civil parish in , England. is situated 5 km south east of Hereford. The hilltop is the site of , an Iron Age fort.

Hereford

Latitude
52.0554° or 52° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
-2.7152° or 2° 42′ 55″ west
Population
58,900
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
IATA airport code
HFH
United Nations Location Code
GB HAF
Open location code
9C4V374M+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21280555
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2647074
Wiki­data ID
Q204720
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hereford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hereford”
  • Arabic: “هيرفورد”
  • Armenian: “Հերերֆորդ”
  • Armenian: “Հերեֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Hereford”
  • Basque: “Hereford”
  • Belarusian: “Гэрэфард”
  • Belarusian: “Херэфард”
  • Bengali: “হেরফোর্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Херефорд”
  • Catalan: “Hereford”
  • Cebuano: “Hereford”
  • Chinese: “禧福”
  • Chinese: “赫里福德”
  • Czech: “Hereford”
  • Danish: “Hereford”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hereford”
  • Dutch: “Hereford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيرفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Hereford”
  • Finnish: “Hereford”
  • French: “Hereford”
  • Georgian: “ჰერეფორდი”
  • German: “Henffordd”
  • German: “Hereford”
  • Greek: “Χέρεφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “હેરેફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “הרפורד”
  • Hindi: “हियरफोर्ड”
  • Hindi: “हेफ़ेर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Hereford”
  • Icelandic: “Hereford”
  • Indonesian: “Hereford”
  • Irish: “Hereford”
  • Italian: “Hereford”
  • Japanese: “ヘリフォード”
  • Japanese: “ヘルフォード”
  • Japanese: “ヘレフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರೆಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರ್ ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “헤리퍼드”
  • Korean: “헤리포드”
  • Kurdish: “Hereford”
  • Ladin: “Hereford”
  • Latin: “Ferulega”
  • Latin: “Herefordia”
  • Latvian: “Hereforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hereford”
  • Lithuanian: “Herefordas”
  • Malay: “Hereford”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯦꯔꯦꯐꯣꯔꯗ”
  • Marathi: “हरफर्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “هرفورد”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hereford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hereford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hereford i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hereford”
  • Norwegian: “Hereford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hereford”
  • Persian: “هرفورد، انگلستان”
  • Persian: “هرفورد”
  • Piemontese: “Hereford”
  • Polish: “Hereford”
  • Portuguese: “Hereford, Herefordshire”
  • Portuguese: “Hereford”
  • Quechua: “Hereford”
  • Romanian: “Hereford”
  • Russian: “Герефорд”
  • Russian: “Херефорд”
  • Russian: “Херефорде”
  • Scots: “Hereford”
  • Serbian: “Hereford”
  • Serbian: “Херефорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hereford”
  • Silesian: “Hereford”
  • Sinhala: “හියර්ෆෝර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Hereford”
  • Slovenian: “Hereford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرفورد، اینگیلیس”
  • Spanish: “Hereford (Herefordshire)”
  • Spanish: “Hereford”
  • Swedish: “Hereford”
  • Tagalog: “Hereford”
  • Tamil: “ஹெர்போர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Һерефорд”
  • Telugu: “హెరెఫోర్డ్”
  • Thai: “Hereford”
  • Thai: “เฮริฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Hereford”
  • Ukrainian: “Герефорд”
  • Ukrainian: “Герфорд”
  • Urdu: “ہیری فورڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Hereford”
  • Volapük: “Hereford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hereford”
  • Welsh: “Henffordd”
  • Western Frisian: “Hereford”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیریفورڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫里福德”
  • Yiddish: “הערעפארד”
  • Yiddish: “הערעפֿארד”
  • Yue Chinese: “禧福”
  • “Hereford”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hereford”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.