Hereford, Herefordshire

Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide through Great Britain (1801)

HEREFORD is a city, almost encompassed by the Wye, and two other rivers, over which are two bridges. It is an ancient, decayed place, and had six parish churches, but two of them were demolished in the civil wars. It is a bishop's see, and the cathedral is an ancient and venerable structure. The west tower, in particular, was esteemed a beautiful and magnificent piece of architecture; but, in 1786, the whole of this tower, with a part of the body of the church, fell down: it has since been rebuilt. Its chief manufacture is gloves. Hereford, before the conquest, was the headquarters of the Saxons, as it was afterwards of the English, who were stationed here to awe the Welsh. The chapter-house, once an elegant building, is now in ruins. Almost the only drink here is Cyder, the very hedges in the country being planted with apple-trees

Inns: New Inn, City Arms Hotel.

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