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Hereford is a city in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. It is the county town of Herefordshire. Hereford had a population of 50,154 according census of 2001.
Hereford is fifth historic cities of Britain. The name Hereford comes from the Anglo Saxon here referring to army or formation of soldiers, and the ford coming from an earlier Roman term, also used in Saxon periods, referring to an area of river that soldiers could cross in close formation.
Hereford was a frontier town on the border between kingdoms inhabited by the ancestors of the Welsh and of the English before there were such countries as Wales and England.
Hereford was founded in around 700 AD and became the Saxon capital of West Mercia.
In 1974 Herefordshire was merged with Worcestershire to become part of the county of Hereford and Worcester, and Hereford became a district of the new county.
The A49 is a major road in England. It runs north from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire via Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, bypasses Shrewsbury and Whitchurch, then continues through central Cheshire to Warrington, Newton-le-Willows, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan and Standish before terminating at its junction with the A6 road just south of Bamber Bridge, near the junction of the M6, M65 and M61 motorways.
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