The Hereford Times is on the move.

After 30 years we are leaving our office in Holmer Road, Hereford, for a bright new home at Skylon Park, Rotherwas.

It will be a fitting location for us. The park is booming, and is attracting dozens of go-ahead digital businesses like ours.

We will continue, there, serving as the county’s biggest print and online newsroom, as well as growing our highly effective marketing services under our burgeoning LOCALiQ brand.

The Hereford Times is enjoying strong growth online. Average monthly page impressions (the number of times a web page is delivered and seen by a user) increased by 24 per cent in 2019 to 2.73 million.

The move to Rotherwas, which will happen in the early part of this year, is a declaration of publisher Newsquest Media Group’s continuing commitment to producing the Hereford Times in Herefordshire.

The team here are all excited about moving to their new office, which offers the modern environment more suitable to the paper’s requirements than our present dated accommodation.

It is, of course, not the first time in its long history that the Hereford Times has relocated.

Established in 1832, its first home was in Widemarsh Street under the editorship of founder Charles Anthony, who was also six times the city mayor and dubbed the father of modern Hereford.

In 1858 the paper moved to Maylord Street and was there until its building was demolished in 1967.

From there it was on to Berrows House in Bath Street.

The huge space there became unnecessary once print production ceased and moved to Worcester, shortly followed by ‘hot metal’ type composition in 1975.

The paper’s fourth move, in 1984, was to Hereford Times House in Aubrey Street.

In 1990 we again upped sticks, this time to Holmer Road, from where we now prepare for a new chapter in our history.

But the torch lit by Charles Anthony almost two centuries ago and passed to our hands remains undimmed, regardless of bricks and mortar.

Look out for more news about our move in the coming weeks.