Ross-on-Wye
Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.population
- 10,700
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.official_name
- Ross-on-Wye
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.unitary_england
- Herefordshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Herefordshire
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
- UK place.post_town
- ROSS-ON-WYE
- UK place.postcode_district
- HR9
- UK place.postcode_area
- HR
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- United Reformed, Methodist and Baptist churches
- Plague Cross
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- Twin towns
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Ross-on-Wye is a market town and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, near the border with Wales. It had a population estimated at 10,978 in 2021. It lies in the south-east of the county, on the River Wye and on the northern edge of the Forest of Dean.
==History== thumb|left|The Market House in 1890 (photochrom) The name "Ross" is derived from the Welsh or Celtic for a "promontory". It was renamed "Ross-on-Wye" in 1931 by the General Post Office, due to confusion with other places of the same or similar name (such as Ross in Scotland).