Leominster
Leominster is a market town in the English county of Herefordshire. It is located at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater, roughly 12 miles (19 km) north of the city of Hereford and about 7 miles south of the Shropshire border, 11 miles from Ludlow in Shropshire. Leominster train station has services to Manchester, travelling through Ludlow and Cardiff, and connections to London are reached by changing at Hereford. With a permanent population of around 11691 people, in accordance with the 2011 Census, Leominster is the largest of the 5 towns Leominster, Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury, Bromyard and Kington in the county encompassing the City of Hereford. From 1974 to 1996, Leominster worked as the administrative centre for the former local government district of Leominster District. The town takes its name from a minster, which is a group of clergy in the district of Lene or Leon. During The Course Of the Early Middle Ages, Leominster was the home of Æthelmod of Leominster, an English saint known to history primarily through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. He is professed to be entombed in Leominster. Leominster is also the historical home of Ryeland sheep, a breed previously famed for its 'Lemster' wool, referred to as 'Lemster ore'. This wool was valued above all other English wool in trade with the continent of Europe in the Middle Ages. It was the profit and prosperity from this wool trade that formed the town and the minster and tempted the envy of the Welsh and other regions. For all of your home improvements, be sure to identify reliable contractors in Leominster to make certain of quality.
