Bishop's Frome Explained

Country:England
Label Position:left
Static Image Name:Church at Bishops Frome - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg
Coordinates:52.1342°N -2.4969°W
Official Name:Bishop's Frome
Region:West Midlands
Post Town:BROMYARD
Postcode District:WR6
Postcode Area:WR
Os Grid Reference:SO660485

Bishop's Frome (or Bishops Frome) is a village and civil parish in eastern Herefordshire, England. The village is 11miles north-east of the city and county town of Hereford, 8miles west of Malvern and 4miles 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.[1] 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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Notes and References

  1. http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=BFLS "Bishop's Frome Limestone Member"