Shire Ditch
Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Malvern
Historical Forms
- in trenchato Hereford' 1164–79 WoC c.1250
- in Haro Hereford' c.1180 c.1240 ib
Etymology
This would suggest that there was a shire ditch 100 years before Gilbert de Clare made a ditch (c. 1287) separating his lands from those of the Bishop of Hereford (cf. VCH iv. 93).