Haywood is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and south-west of Hereford. Parish population at the 2011 census was 216.[1] There are no substantial settlements, however, it is home to one of the largest poultry farms in Great Britain.
The Hay of Hereford was a Royal forest in the early Middle Ages.[2] It was granted by Empress Matilda to Milo of Gloucester when she created him Earl of Hereford.[3] The woodlands can be seen on Saxton's 1577 map of Herefordshire.[4]
Haywood was officially outside of any parish in the mid-1800s.[5]
