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Hereford , town (1991 pop. 48,277), Herefordshire, W central England. Hereford is a cattle-market town, from which the cattle breed takes its name. Industries include food processing, brewing, and light manufacturing. At its cathedral, which probably dates from the 11th cent., the Festival of the Three Choirs is held every third year. (In the other years it is held at Gloucester or Worcester .) The nearby White Cross commemorates the termination of the great plague in the mid-14th cent. A grammar school was founded there in the 14th cent. Hereford was the birthplace of Nell Gwyn , mistress of Charles II, and the stage actor David Garrick .

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Hereford, ‘ford suitable for the passage of an army’, OE *here-ford: Hereford Herefs. Hereford 958, 1086 (DB). Herefordshire (OE scīr ‘district’) is first referred to in the 11th cent. Hereford, Little Herefs. Lutelonhereford 1086 (DB). Affix is OE lȳtlan, dative of lȳtel ‘little’.

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Hereford, UK, USA 1. UK (England): ‘Army Ford’ from here and ford, possibly to indicate that the ford was wide enough for marching soldiers to cross without breaking ranks. The county of Herefordshire, from the name of the city and scīr, gave its name to the cattle bred here.2. USA (Texas): named afer the breed of cattle brought here in the 1890s.

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