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.
  • City with about 53,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 200 feet (60 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code HFH
  • Description: cathedral city and county town of Herefordshire, England
  • Postal codes
    HR1
    HR2
    HR3
    HR4
  • Also known as
    “City of Hereford”
    “Hereford, Herefordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Railway Station.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lugwardine and Grafton.
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Latitude
52.0554° or 52° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
-2.7152° or 2° 42′ 55″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB HAF
Open location code
9C4V374M+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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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: “ಹೆರ್ ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “헤리퍼드”
  • Korean: “헤리포드”
  • Kurdish: “Hereford”
  • Ladin: “Hereford”
  • Latin: “Ferulega”
  • Latin: “Herefordia”
  • Latvian: “Hereforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Hereford”
  • Lithuanian: “Herefordas”
  • Malay: “Hereford”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯦꯔꯦꯐꯣꯔꯗ”
  • Manx: “Hereford”
  • 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: “הערעפֿארד”
  • Yue Chinese: “禧福”

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