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Bromyard is a town in Herefordshire, England with a population in 2011 of approximately 4,500.〔http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/factsandfigures/subcounty.aspx〕 It lies near to the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, including some of the pubs, and the parish church dates back to Norman times. The town is twinned with Athis-de-l'Orne, Normandy. == History == Bromyard is mentioned in a charter of c. 840 as Bromgeard ("enclosure where broom or gorse grew" (or perhaps "fenced in by gorse") and in Domesday Book as Bromgerde.〔E. Ekwall, Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names〕 42 villani (villeins, villagers), 9 bordars (smallholders), and 8 slaves were recorded in the Domesday entry, one of the largest communities in Herefordshire.〔domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO6554/bromyard/Cached〕 Like Leominster, Ledbury, and Ross-on-Wye, the town of Bromyard was founded in the early 12th century, probably in the episcopate of Richard de Capella (1121-1127).〔Joe Hillaby, Ledbury, A Medieval Borough, Logaston Press 1997〕 As with those other three towns, the bishops of Hereford had had a manor and minster there since Anglo-Saxon times.〔Bromyard – Minster, Manor and Town, Phyllis Williams, Bromyard & District Local History Society〕 Surveys for the bishop made in 1285 and 1587-8 give valuable information about the town's first few centuries.〔A transcript of "The red book", a detailed account of the Hereford bishopric estates in the thirteenth century edited by A.T. Bannister, 1929; Swithun Butterfield's survey of the same in 1587-8 in Herefordshire archives〕 Besides the central town area, the large parish used to consist of the three townships of Winslow, Linton, and Norton; these areas are still known as such.〔 Phyllis Williams, Bromyard: Minster, Manor and Town, 1987〕 It was for many years a market town and is still a centre for growing hops, apples and pears, and soft fruit.〔A Pocket Full of Hops, 1988, revised edition 2007, Bromyard & District Local History Society〕 A sandstone quarry was opened at Linton, just east of the town, in the 1870s, but the hopes for extensive sales of good quality building stone were disappointed and by 1879 it was producing bricks and tiles from the Old Red Sandstone marls. This business continued until the 1970s.〔Herefordshire through time, http://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/smrSearch/Monuments/Monument_Item.aspx?ID=30573〕 During World War I, Bromyard was the site of an internment camp, where the Irish nationalist Terence MacSwiney, future Lord Mayor of Cork and hunger striker, was both interned and married.〔Journal of Bromyard and District LHS, no. 19, 1996/7〕 In World War II, between autumn 1940 and 1945, Westminster School was temporarily relocated to a variety of buildings on the outskirts of the town, principally Buckenhill, and including for various purposes Brockhampton, Clater Park, Whitbourne Rectory, Fernie, and Saltmarshe Castle.〔Journal of Bromyard & District LHS, no. 8, 1985〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bromyard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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