QUITE APART from the debate about English and Welsh names, it is good to stimulate interest in the past.
Henfford presumably meant Old Way and didn't even have to refer to a river crossing. Army ford always seems questionable as the Roman army would have used the ford upriver at Kenchester. This may have been the obvious crossing much earlier, considering the site of Credenhill, once a British town.
An intriguing possibility is that the Saxons brought the name Hereford with them as colonist will, for there is a village of this name in the area of Saxony, from which the settlers may have come. Can anyone cast more light on the name of our city?
The Rev A GRAHAM HELLIER,
Marden, Hereford
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