HARC brings the county’s archive, archaeology unit, the historic environment record, and the biological records centre together in one building, allowing people access to all these records in one place.
Visit Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre – Herefordshire Council
The HARC building opened to the public in August 2015, with the official opening taking place on 1 October 2015, by HRH The Duke of Kent KG.
Started in August 2013, the build for the Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre took just over a year – with completion on site in December 2014 and formal key handover in January 2015.
The award winning building is energy efficient, with running costs significantly less because of the leading edge ‘passivhaus design’. It now provides Herefordshire’s archives with the environmental and access standards as required by The National Archives for accreditation.
All the archive collections were stock-checked, cleaned, packaged and re-boxed where necessary, so they were in the best condition for the move to the new building. There were 17,500 boxes, 10,000 volumes and 5,000 maps.
About 50 volunteers assisted with the preparation programme – helping to clean and package the documents and making packaging or inputting survey details. In 2014 they gave us an amazing 15,779 hours of their time, without which the project would not have been possible.
Opening hours
- Tuesday 10am to 4pm
- Wednesday 10am to 4pm
- Thursday 10am to 4pm
- Friday 10am to 4pm
- Saturday (second in the month) 10am to 4pm (from Saturday 9 April)
By bus
Buses 78 and 78X run to Rotherwas, starting from Hereford City Bus Station, Fryzers Court behind Tesco in the city centre and the 454 Hereford to Woolhope bus starts from the Country Bus Station, Commercial Street, Hereford. See the bus services page for further details.
Map of Hereford city bus services
Walking
HARC is a 45 minute walk (2.3 miles) from Hereford Train Station via the Greenway walk/cycleway or about 50 minutes (2.6 miles) walking on pavements alongside the road route.
You can download a Hereford walking and cycling map. If walking via the Greenway route, please note that the Greenway has borrowed light but no street lighting.
Cycling
The Hereford walking and cycling map shows cycling routes in blue, from the centre of Hereford to HARC. There are covered bike racks available.
Address: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA
Telephone: +44 (0)1432 260750
