The poetess, Elizabeth Barrett Browning spent her childhood near Ledbury, and it was here she began to write her poetry. The Institute, a memorial to her, is housed in the library building and is also home to a collection of...

The timber-framed Butcher Row House, which until 1830 had been part of a row of 15 burgage houses and shops, was once sited in the middle of Ledbury High Street. The earliest reference to it was as a shop in...

The famous Church Lane in Ledbury has been the scene of many period films and television appearances. The numerous black and white buildings with their overhanging storeys line the narrow cobbled walkway, which leads up to St Michael and All...

This wonderful manor house has been occupied for nearly a thousand years and displays signs of architecture that date back to the 13th Century. The majority of the exterior is Tudor, and features classical examples of this rich building...

Ledbury Heritage Centre, with its overhanging first floor, was built about 1480 and was probably first used as a Guildhall. In the 17th Century, the Latin Grammar School moved here, with the masters who until 1770 were clergymen, living in...

St Michaels and All Angels, Ledbury, was described by Pevsner as the premier parish church in Herefordshire. There are rounded-arch Norman arcades and redundant round clerestory windows along the long nave. The ornate 17th Century font was found buried underneath...

Holy Trinity Church, Bosbury, was built around 1200 with both Norman and Early English work. The later Perpendicular chapel was added in 1528. The Jacobean pulpit has some exquisite carved panels, which are thought to be Flemish. The square-bowled font...

The black and white Market House and Heritage Museum is also Newent’s town hall and is sited in the middle of the town. It was built in 1668 as a butter market, there being a market established here for several...

Newent Lake, with its riverside walk and adjoining park, is a beauty spot situated in the heart of the town. It’s set in the grounds of the former Newent Court and was created from the fish ponds of medieval monks...

Except for retaining the medieval tower, a Norman doorway and the North arcade, the church was rebuilt in 1852 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Decorated style. There are two Italian chests, one depicting scenes of knights fighting. An...

Standing on a stone plinth in the porch of St Mary the Virgin Church in Newent is the carved shaft of a free-standing cross, probably 9th Century. The great nave was rebuilt during the 17th Century after it collapsed in...

This medieval church, constructed beginning around 1095, features superb well-preserved wall paintings from the 12th to 15th centuries. The Romanesque-style frescoes in the barrel-vaulted chancel date from 1130, and depict Biblical scenes from the Book of Revelations. Among the nave...

St Mary’s Church in Dymock is mostly Norman, and has a sculptured Norman doorway, the work of the Dymock School of sculpture. Above the door there is a tympanum depicting the tree of life. Two Holy water stoups rest on...

A relic from the era of the Temperance Movement, the Victorian well is situated on the village green at Eastnor and was erected by Lady Henry Somers. It was built originally in the hope of directing Eastnor people away from...

The Shambles, first opened in 1988, is a museum of Victorian life, set out as a complete town of shops, cottages, cobbled streets and alleyways. There’s everything here from a doctor’s surgery, bakery, and beer cellar to a solicitor’s office...

England’s leading wine producer, visitors are welcome all year and new for 2002 is a microbrewery. Visitors can sample the wines, follow the vineyard trail, watch a video and enter the winery via the viewing gallery. We also have an...