No one called at the Potion Shop in the back streets of Leominster by accident. In fact it got no
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Herefordshire is not regarded as one of the first class cricketing counties. Indeed it is only recently that it has
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Every county has a version of this ballad. The version on which this story is based was sung by John
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The Coningsbys were a new family. They could not trace their line back to the Norman Conquest. They were lawyers
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Everybody knows that a princess is bad news, especially to her father. That was the thought that occurred to King
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David Phelps, author of “Herefordshire Folktales”, is crowdfunding his novel “The Hare At Morning”, the story of a Herefordshire
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No one could refuse the Earl of Hereford anything, that is what Earl Swein thought. The son of the powerful
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I’ve had a hard working life but I cannot think of a better. Working on the same sort of job
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When Frederick came home from work one day there was a strange bike leaning against the porch. He cussed; the
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Dr Atlantis Had an hypothesis, Thought that all people Were basically good. Tried to be good, And kind and considerate.
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