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The
name is derived from the forest of Haywood which
covered a much larger area than the present parish.
Haywood was a Royal Forest until the late 17th
century and was never tithed. Thomas Blount (1675)
recorded that; [The King] has the castle of
Hereford and the forest of Hay in his hands, and
most of the City of Hereford, which parts the
citizens have in fee of our lord, the King, for
£10 per annum-the other parts are in the hands
of the bishop-those of the Chapter and the hospitallers
Webb
(1854) editing the household expenses of Richard
de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part
of the years 1289 and 1290, recorded that the
Royal forest of Haywood extended from; the Wye
Bridge in the town of Hereford to Putson-the King’s
Highway to Callow-to the windmill outside Dewsall-to
the bridge at Kivernoll-to the place called Stockwell-King’s
Highway to Webtree-to Hunderton and to the Wye
Bridge.
Archaeological
records from Haywood are held by Historic Herefordshire
On Line
Illustration courtesy of
Hereford City Library
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