Hereford, PA

Hereford is a census-designated place in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, at the meeting of Pennsylvania Routes 29 and 100. Perkiomen Creek runs south through the village toward the Schuylkill River, while the roads connect East Greenville, Pottstown, Shimerville, and Allentown. The community sits in a farming landscape with stone buildings, old mills, and rolling ridges shaped by the township’s eighteenth-century settlement.

Hereford’s local story is a crossroads one. The post office served the village from 1830 to 2019, and the intersection still gathers traffic from both directions. The surrounding township moved from early farms and iron ore mines to agriculture, creameries, and small businesses; the village’s creek and stone structures keep that layered past visible. Chestnut Street runs north from the crossroads toward Shimerville in Lehigh County. The creek valley also carries an older mill and farm-road pattern. Hereford is a compact Berks County community where two state routes, Perkiomen Creek, an old postal address, and the rural roads of Hereford Township meet.