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Henry Rider Haggard was born in Norfolk in 1856, the son of a Norfolk squire.
Despite its name, New Street is one of the oldest streets in Ledbury.
Church Street was formerly called Hallend, then Back Lane This road was probably the beginning of the early route from Ledbury to Worcester.
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The earliest name for the street, recorded from 1288, was Bishop Street, after the bishop of Hereford, who probably held land there.
The church has Anglo-Saxon origins. The present building contains some Norman work, but is mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
This was one of the original streets of the medieval town, its name recorded from 1288.
