Haywood, Herefordshire

Haywood is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, and south-west of Hereford. Parish population at the 2011 census was 216.^[1] There are no substantial settlements, however, it is home to one of the largest poultry farms in Great Britain.

The Hay of Hereford was a Royal forest in the early Middle Ages.^[2] It was granted by Empress Matilda to Milo of Gloucester when she created him Earl of Hereford.^[3] The woodlands can be seen on Saxton's 1577 map of Herefordshire.^[4]

Haywood was officially outside of any parish in the mid-1800s.^[5]