Grafton is a village and
civil parish in
Herefordshire, England.
The population of this civil parish was 258 at the
2011 census. The parish includes the villages of Grafton and
Bullinghope, and is immediately to the south of
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 ...
city.
The origin of the place-name is from the
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
words ''graf'' and ''tun'' meaning a farmstead in or by a grove; the place-name appears as ''Crafton'' in 1303.
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Villages in Herefordshire
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