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Bishop's Frome

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Bishop's Frome (or Bishops Frome) is a village and civil parish in eastern Herefordshire, England. The village is 11 miles (18 km) north-east of the city and county town of Hereford, 8 miles (13 km) west of Malvern and 4 miles (6 km) south of Bromyard. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Halmond's Frome and Fromes Hill. The River Frome flows north to south through the parish and at the eastern edge of the village. Local agriculture includes the growing of hops and cider apples. Within the parish is a cider making company and a wine making business. Bishop's Frome gives its name to the Bishop's Frome Limestone which outcrops locally. Parish population at the 2011 census was 834. Although the parish is in Herefordshire, its mail is handled in Worcester and its outward postcode is WR6. St Mary's parish church at the south of the village is approached through a lychgate. The church contains a font over 700 years old, and a memorial depicting the carved figure of a knight in armour, sword in hand and a lion at his feet.

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Halmond's Frome
Halmond's Frome

Halmond's Frome is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bishop's Frome in Herefordshire, England, and is 11 miles (18 km) north-east from the city and county town of Hereford. The closest town is the market town of Bromyard, 4.5 miles (7 km) to the north. Halmond's Frome is at the west of the parish, and 300 yards (274 m) from the boundary with the parish of Evesbatch. The hamlet is centred on the junction of two minor roads: Snail's Bank, which runs from Bromyard at the north to the parish hamlet of Fromes Hill on the A4103 road 1 mile (1.6 km) at the south, and the road to the B124 road to Bishop's Frome village.During the 19th century Halmond's Frome was one of the townships within the parish. By 1881 the parish townships (as opposed to the complete parish area), of Halmond's Frome, Bishop's Frome (village), Leadon, Walton, and Stanford Regis had a combined population of 727. Listed occupations of Halmond's Frome in 1885 included two shopkeepers, one farmer, and a beer retailer-cum-carrier, in a parish of clay soil producing wheat, beans, hops and fruit. A beer retailer was still listed in 1913, as was a shoe maker.The hamlet comprises residential properties, a public house, a private guest house, and two farms, one with a hop kiln building. The 18th-century square hop kiln, red brick with twin pyramid slate roofs, is one of 14 Grade II listed buildings, another being the Major's Arms public house, originally a 17th-century cottage, with timber-framing with plaster infills, of one storey with attic, casement windows, a slate roof with gable ends, and a stone end stack.