Herefordshire

[ her-uh-ferd-sheer, -sher ]

noun

1. a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.

Herefordshire

/ ˈhɛrɪfədˌʃɪə; -ʃə /

noun

1. a county of W England: from 1974 to 1998 part of Hereford and Worcester: drained chiefly by the River Wye; agricultural (esp fruit and cattle). Administrative centre: Hereford. Pop: 176 900 (2003 est). Area: 2180 sq km (842 sq miles)

Example Sentences

For example, Border Morris, originating in the Welsh border counties of Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, features performers who wear tatter coats and often paint their faces or use other forms of disguise.

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Tasha Morris, whose son Oscar died in August, was left angry after finding his final resting place in Leominster cemetery, Herefordshire, was targeted.

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Louis Dyson, managing director of DRM Buses, which operates the route in Herefordshire that Janette and Doreen use, says the company had cut the route from hourly to two-hourly because of a drop in passenger numbers.

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Separately, while a Covid lockdown was in place, it emerged he had driven 150 miles from London to his Herefordshire home, and then another 40 miles to deliver food and medicine, he said, to his isolating parents.

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Born in Wolverhampton in 1982, Jenrick grew up in Shropshire and Herefordshire, and went to a private school.

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