Adforton is a small village in north Herefordshire, England close to the Wales border. The name Adforton means ‘settlement connected with Ealdfrith’.
John Marius Wilson’s Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales describes Adforton as :”a township with Stanway, Paytoe, and Grange
Brampton Bryan is a small village and civil parish situated in north Herefordshire, England close to the Shropshire and Welsh borders. The ruins of Brampton Bryan Castle are on a floodplain south of the River Teme, 50 metres (160 ft) north of the church. From this site the castle guarded an important route from Ludlow along the Teme Valley to Knighton and on into Central Wales. The area has been important since Roman times and the village is a few miles west of Leintwardine – an important Roman site.
Buckton and Coxall are hamlets in the parish. Coxall has a Baptist chapel[1] situated on the B4367 road, where there is a Royal Mail post box too. The chapel and post box are on the other side of the Heart of Wales Line from the main part of the hamlet, and in the county of Shropshire. Buckton is a larger hamlet and has a bridge (Buckton Bridge) over the River Teme. There was a Roman fort at Buckton.
Lingen is a village and civil parish, situated in the wooded hills of Herefordshire, England in the Welsh Marches near to the border with Wales and close to the larger village of Wigmore.
Walford, Letton and Newton (Not to be confused with Walford, Ross-on-Wye.)
Walford village lies just south of the River Teme about 2 km southwest of Leintwardine and 2 km northeast of Letton. The post town is Craven Arms and postcodes start with SY7. The A4113 Bromfield to Knighton road runs through the village.
At the time of the Domesday Survey Walford was known as ‘Waliforde’, which may mean ‘ford of the Welshmen.
Willey is a civil parish in Herefordshire, on the Welsh-English borders. The main source of employment is farming and there were a total of 61 residents in the parish at the 2001 census. The parish borders on Stapleton, Lingen and Presteigne.