Grafton, Herefordshire

Grafton is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England.^[1]^[2] The population of this civil parish was 258 at the 2011 census. The parish includes the villages of Grafton and , and is immediately to the south of Hereford city.

The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words graf and tun meaning a farmstead in or by a grove; the place-name appears as Crafton in 1303.^[3]

References[]

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 149 Hereford & Leominster (Bromyard & Ledbury) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319229538.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9780199609086.

External links[]

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Coordinates: 52°01′48″N 2°44′02″W / 52.030°N 2.734°W / 52.030; -2.734

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[OS149-1] Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 149 Hereford & Leominster (Bromyard & Ledbury) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319229538.

[OSGaz50-2] "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

[3] Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9780199609086.

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