Towns founded by bishops

Towns were not only founded by the king and nobles, but sometimes also by bishops on their own manors. In Herefordshire, for example, Leominster, Bromyard, Ross-on-Wye and Ledbury were towns created on church manors, in all four cases probably by Bishop Richard de Capella (1121-1127) (Joe Hillaby, Ledbury, A Medieval Borough, Logaston Press, 1997).