Haywood is a

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England, bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh ...

, England, and south-west of

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

. Parish population at the 2011 census was 216. There are no substantial settlements, however, it is home to one of the largest poultry farms in Great Britain. The Hay of Hereford was a

Royal forest A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood (), is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The term ''forest'' in the ordinary modern understanding refers to an area of wooded land; however, the ...

in the early Middle Ages. It was granted by

Empress Matilda Empress Matilda (10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy, she went to ...

to Milo of Gloucester when she created him

Earl of Hereford Earl of Hereford is a title in the ancient feudal nobility of England, encompassing the region of Herefordshire, England. It was created six times. The title is an ancient one. In 1042, Godwin, Earl of Wessex severed the territory of Herefordshir ...

. The woodlands can be seen on Saxton's 1577 map of Herefordshire. Haywood was officially outside of any parish in the mid-1800s.'Hayle - Hazon'
in A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis (London, 1848), pp. 454-456 ccessed 26 August 2015

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Villages in Herefordshire English royal forests {{Herefordshire-geo-stub