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Former western English county
Answer for the clue "Former western English county ", 13 letters:
herefordshire
Word definitions for herefordshire in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Herefordshire (; abbreviated Herefs. or Hfds. ) is a historic English county in the West Midlands . It is a ceremonial county and a unitary non-metropolitan county and district, also named in legislation as the County of Herefordshire and governed by Herefordshire ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Herefordscir , from Hereford (958), literally "ford suitable for the passage of an army." Probably so-called in reference to the Roman road passing over the Wye River. Herford in Germany has the same etymology. As the name for a type of cattle, ...
Usage examples of herefordshire.
He had known since childhood exactly where the county boundary with Herefordshire ran, and he chose a site just on the Gloucestershire side, in Fingerpost Field, where he had worked with his father as a boy.
Trollop had sought immunity by volunteering to bring in proscribed fugitives, and that he was the leader of a party of riders who were sent into Radnorshire and Herefordshire for the express purpose of arresting King Henry, who was believed to have escaped to Wales, Queen Margaret and the Prince, and the families of such as Exeter and Oxford.