Leominster

Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, England, and is situated at the intersection of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, roughly 12 miles 19 km north of the city of Hereford and approx 7 miles south of the Shropshire fringe, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire. With a populace of roughly 11,700 people, Leominster is the biggest of the five towns Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury, Bromyard and Kington in the region encompassing the City of Hereford.

From 1974 to 1996, Leominster filled in as the regulatory community for the previous nearby government area of Leominster District. Amid the Early Middle Ages, Leominster was home to Aethelmod of Leominster, an English holy person known to history for the most part through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. He is supposedly covered in Leominster. As indicated by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, an assault by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn on Leominster in 1052 brought about the Battle of Llanllieni, between the Welsh and a consolidated power of Normans hired fighters and English Saxons.

Henry I gave the minster and its domains on Reading Abbey, which established a convent at Leominster in 1121, in spite of the fact that there was one here from Saxon times. Its Priory Church of St. Dwindle and St. Paul, which presently fills in as the ward church, is the rest of the piece of this twelfth century Benedictine cloister. Quatrefoil wharfs were embedded between 1872– 79 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.