A programme of talks offering fresh insight into Herefordshire's history - the tradition of timber buildings, the outcome of excavations at the Cathedral, the Hereford Gospels, and Offa's Dyke - from the authors of recently published or forthcoming books. Venue:...
FRIDAY 22 MAY
Kingsland Village Trail
A self-guided trail trail of eight historic village houses in Kingsland which is available throughout the year. The research and information provided in the guide has been researched and compiled by the Kingsland History Group. The guide is available at the Kingsland...
Ledbury’s Libraries
The 20-minute show covering over two centuries of Libraries in Ledbury. How they started as Private Libraries. Then Ledbury's Circulating Libraries, also known as Lending or Rental Libraries, and specialist Subscription Libraries. Includes a description of the Master...
Home and Away
Home & Away is an exhibition of archive photographs taken by Christopher Preece during the 1980s and 1990s. The photographs feature his home town, Leominster, and elsewhere. Each photo of Leominster is paired with a photo from elsewhere. It could be a railway...
Grange Court, Leominster
Beautiful, Grade 2 listed market hall, built in 1633 by 'Kings Carpenter' John Abel and lavishly decorated with fine carvings. It originally stood in the centre of Leominster as part of a busy market and was rebuilt on the Grange in 1859 as a private house. It is now...
Film, Ledbury Ox Roast 1953
Where were you on Coronation Day in 1953? Perhaps you were huddled round your new-fangled gadget called a television set, watching all the events as they unfolded in London. Or maybe you took part in this local celebration in the shadow of the Market House in...
Guided Walk Along The Canal
A guided circular walk between Ashperton and Staplow. The walk of around 7.5 easy miles follows the route of the canal, some of which is in water, passing over the Ashperton tunnel and stopping for a pub lunch at the halfway point. The price of the lunch is included...
Wellington Dovecote
In Wellington, the Stocks House dovecote is a very fine example of a dovecote. It’s early 18th century, octagonal with “diaper patterns in flared headers” – the brickwork patterns outside. The interior is circular and there are row upon row of nests, reaching all...
The Pateshalls of Allensmore Court
The talk explores the story of heirs, spares (and a cuckoo in the nest!) that kept the Pateshalls at Allensmore Court for over two centuries. Come and hear about sibling rivalries, rebellious nieces, military heroes and 'lunatics', all underpinned by a formula for...
Tour of Knights Templar Church
HISTORICAL GARWAY Sunday May 10th to Friday May 22nd 2026. (Individual and group tours and teas are also available throughout the Spring and Summer up to September.) The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights...
Landscape, Architecture and Memory – The Drawings of Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Jane Woodhouse Lewis (1813–1874) was born in Ludlow and spent much of her life at Yatton Court, Aymestrey. She seems to have been a remarkably independent spirit, who defied her father by marrying geologist and antiquarian, Revd Thomas Taylor Lewis. She was...
Historic Hereford Guided Walks
Hereford is a historic Cathedral City with a fascinating past and a busy present. Its origins lie in the 7th century and its strategic site on the Wye, in the much-disputed borderland between England and Wales, made it as important to the Saxons as to the Normans and...
Rotherwas Together Exhibition at Bromyard
Rotherwas Together is the Herefordshire-based voluntary organisation dedicated to researching stories and raising awareness of the munitions factory ROF Rotherwas, the Royal Ordnance Factory built during the First World War. The factory was used for filling shells,...
Fresh Insights into Herefordshire’s History
A programme of talks offering fresh insight into Herefordshire's history - the tradition of timber buildings, the outcome of excavations at the Cathedral, the Hereford Gospels, and Offa's Dyke - from the authors of recently published or forthcoming books. Venue:...
Kingsland Village Trail
A self-guided trail trail of eight historic village houses in Kingsland which is available throughout the year. The research and information provided in the guide has been researched and compiled by the Kingsland History Group. The guide is available at the Kingsland...
Ledbury’s Libraries
The 20-minute show covering over two centuries of Libraries in Ledbury. How they started as Private Libraries. Then Ledbury's Circulating Libraries, also known as Lending or Rental Libraries, and specialist Subscription Libraries. Includes a description of the Master...
Home and Away
Home & Away is an exhibition of archive photographs taken by Christopher Preece during the 1980s and 1990s. The photographs feature his home town, Leominster, and elsewhere. Each photo of Leominster is paired with a photo from elsewhere. It could be a railway...
Grange Court, Leominster
Beautiful, Grade 2 listed market hall, built in 1633 by 'Kings Carpenter' John Abel and lavishly decorated with fine carvings. It originally stood in the centre of Leominster as part of a busy market and was rebuilt on the Grange in 1859 as a private house. It is now...
Film, Ledbury Ox Roast 1953
Where were you on Coronation Day in 1953? Perhaps you were huddled round your new-fangled gadget called a television set, watching all the events as they unfolded in London. Or maybe you took part in this local celebration in the shadow of the Market House in...
Guided Walk Along The Canal
A guided circular walk between Ashperton and Staplow. The walk of around 7.5 easy miles follows the route of the canal, some of which is in water, passing over the Ashperton tunnel and stopping for a pub lunch at the halfway point. The price of the lunch is included...
Wellington Dovecote
In Wellington, the Stocks House dovecote is a very fine example of a dovecote. It’s early 18th century, octagonal with “diaper patterns in flared headers” – the brickwork patterns outside. The interior is circular and there are row upon row of nests, reaching all...
The Pateshalls of Allensmore Court
The talk explores the story of heirs, spares (and a cuckoo in the nest!) that kept the Pateshalls at Allensmore Court for over two centuries. Come and hear about sibling rivalries, rebellious nieces, military heroes and 'lunatics', all underpinned by a formula for...
Tour of Knights Templar Church
HISTORICAL GARWAY Sunday May 10th to Friday May 22nd 2026. (Individual and group tours and teas are also available throughout the Spring and Summer up to September.) The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights...
Landscape, Architecture and Memory – The Drawings of Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Jane Woodhouse Lewis (1813–1874) was born in Ludlow and spent much of her life at Yatton Court, Aymestrey. She seems to have been a remarkably independent spirit, who defied her father by marrying geologist and antiquarian, Revd Thomas Taylor Lewis. She was...
Historic Hereford Guided Walks
Hereford is a historic Cathedral City with a fascinating past and a busy present. Its origins lie in the 7th century and its strategic site on the Wye, in the much-disputed borderland between England and Wales, made it as important to the Saxons as to the Normans and...
Rotherwas Together Exhibition at Bromyard
Rotherwas Together is the Herefordshire-based voluntary organisation dedicated to researching stories and raising awareness of the munitions factory ROF Rotherwas, the Royal Ordnance Factory built during the First World War. The factory was used for filling shells,...