River Frome, Herefordshire
The River Frome is a river in Herefordshire. It flows through Bromyard, and Bishops Frome. Immediately below the depopulated village of Stretton Grandison its tributary, the river or brook named the Lodon, joins it. It then flows west, past Yarkhill and the farmstead or locality of Prior's Frome before its |confluence with the Lugg (which skirts the north side of Hereford here) at Hampton Bishop about two miles before the latter joins the Wye.
The river gives its name to hamlets on the high ground to the east: Halmond's Frome, Fromes Hill and Castle Frome.
In 2007, like many other rivers, the Frome burst its banks. This occurred at places including lower parts of Bromyard, causing homes to be evacuated. A smaller scale recurrence occurred in April and July 2012.
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Hereford and Leominster, Bromyard and Ledbury (OS Landranger Map Series) (B2 ed.), Ordnance Survey, 2007, ISBN 978-0-319-22953-8
Outside links
- Location of confluence with the Lugg: 52°3’40"N, 2°38’6"W