Bishop's Frome (or Bishops Frome) is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in eastern

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

, England. The village is north-east of the city and

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Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

, west of

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and south of

Bromyard Bromyard is a town in Herefordshire, England, in the valley of the River Frome. It lies near the county border with Worcestershire on the A44 between Leominster and Worcester. Bromyard has a number of traditional half-timbered buildings, inclu ...

. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Halmond's Frome and Fromes Hill. The River Frome flows north to south through the parish and at the eastern edge of the village. Local

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includes the growing of

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and

cider Cider ( ) is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples. Cider is widely available in the United Kingdom (particularly in the West Country) and the Republic of Ireland. The UK has the world's highest per capita consumption, ...

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s. Within the parish is a cider making company and a wine making business. Bishop's Frome gives its name to the

Bishop's Frome Limestone The Bishop's Frome Limestone (or Bishops Frome Limestone) is a rock unit within the Raglan Mudstone Formation of the Old Red Sandstone occurring in the border region between England and South Wales. This limestone is a calcrete, that is to say it ...

which outcrops locally."Bishop's Frome Limestone Member"
''The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units''. Retrieved 11 March 2020 Parish population at the 2011 census was 834. Although the parish is in Herefordshire, its mail is handled in

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and its outward

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is WR6. St Mary's

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at the south of the village is approached through a

lychgate A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, lyke-gate or as two separate words lych gate, (from Old English ''lic'', corpse), also ''wych gate'', is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style ch ...

. The church contains a

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over 700 years old, and a memorial depicting the carved figure of a

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, sword in hand and a lion at his feet.

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Village Centre
Villages in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub