Thornbury is a village in

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, north of the

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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 population of the village as taken at the 2011 census was 197. The village has one

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. To the north of Thornbury is Thornbury Court. Two

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of the River Frome surround the village.

Hill forts

There are two

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s near the village. Nine hundred metres east of the village is Wall Hills Camp, an oval enclosure about 484 m long by 322 m wide, covering 9 hectares. The bank is up to 12.5 m high with an outer ditch. Two kilometres north of the village and just over the border in Worcestershire is Garmsley Hill fort, enclosing an area about 330 m long and 150 m wide. The walls are about 10 m wide, up to 5 m high from the interior and about 11 m higher than the land outside. Roman bricks marked with the

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V have been found there.

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