Harewood is a

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, England. It is approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of the city and

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and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of the

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Ross-on-Wye Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Fore ...

. Within Harewood is the rural estate of Harewood Park, owned by the

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. The parish is part of the

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. Harewood is represented by one councillor on the ten-member Llanwarne & District Group Parish Council The parish is linked by bus at Harewood End to Hereford and

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, with services provided by

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. The closest

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station is at

on the Welsh Marches Line, to the north.Harewood, Herefordshire
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Geography

The parish borders the parishes of

Hentland Hentland is a hamlet and civil parish about north-west of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, England. The small hamlet settlement of Hentland at the east of the parish contains the parish church of St Dubricius. The civil parish, bounded on its e ...

at the east, Pencoyd at the southwest,

Llanwarne Llanwarne is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The population of the civil Parish as taken at the 2011 census was 380. It is about from the Welsh border, is approximately north-west of Ross-on-Wye, and near Harewood End ...

and Llandinabo at the northwest, and Little Birch at the north. It includes the hamlet of Harewood End at the extreme south and on the A49 road, which forms the border with Pencoyd and runs locally from Hereford at the north to Ross-on-Wye at the southeast. The closest village is Hoarwithy in Hentland, bordering at the extreme north-east of the parish.Extracted fro
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. Retrieved 22 February 2019Harewood, Herefordshire

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Retrieved 22 February 2020Harewood, Herefordshire

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. Retrieved 22 February 2020 Harewood is approximately 2 miles (3 km) from north to south and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) at its widest from the north-west to south-east. It is entirely rural, with farms, fields, woods, isolated ponds, and dispersed properties. A stream rising at the north-west of the parish flows east to the Wriggle Brook, a tributary of the

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in Hentland. Within the parish are Home Farm, Grange Farm, Woodlands Farm and Redbrook Farm. Apart from the A49, all routes are footpaths, bridleways and farm tracks.

Landmarks

Harewood is north-west of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The principal landmark of the parish is the rural estate of Harewood Park, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. Its house, demolished in 1959, was rebuilt in 1839 by Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7th Baronet (1776–1862), on the site of the previous Tudor house. The Park includes the seven Grade II

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of the parish, including the former parish church of St Denis, rebuilt in 1864 but today a store, and Grange Farmhouse, possibly dating to the 17th century. Listed at the west of the church is the pedestal tomb 'Hoskyns Monument' and a former late 18th-century stable block, which at the time of the 1987 listing was a dog-breeding station. At the south-west of the farmhouse are a late 18th-century cowhouse, an 18th-century granary, and a late 18th-century barn.

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