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Credenhill is one of the larger villages in Herefordshire 4½ miles North West of Hereford.
There is an iron age hill-fort half a mile North of Credenhill. Archeological finds are in Hereford Museum. The defences of this very large hillfort follow the 600 ft. contour and enclose nearly 50 acres (200,000 m²). They comprise a bank and ditch with a slight counterscarp bank. There are traces of a quarry-ditch inside the main rampart around most of the circuit. Original in-turned entrances are at the centre of the East side and at the South East corner, each approached by a hollow way cut deeply into the hillside. Trial excavation has shown that the internal quarry-ditch is 5-10 ft. deep. Its gradual in-filling was found to include various occupation layers associated with rectangular wooden buildings with 4 corner posts, measuring about 12 x 8 ft., which had been rebuilt several times in the same place. there were also storage pits and other remains of occupation including pottery with stamped and incised patterns typical of the West Midland Iron Age. Date, c. 400 BC; occupied continuously until about AD 75. The fort and the surrounding ancient woodland are now part of the Woodland Trust.
In 1887 Bulmer's Cider was founded Percy Bulmer, the 20 year old son of The Reverend Charles Bulmer, the rector at Credenhill using apples from the Rectory garden.
The former Royal Air Force station of RAF Hereford near the village is now the headquarters of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment.
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