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...

Walk Leominster’s Anglo Saxon history

A special guided walking tour of Leominster focused on the town before the Normal conquest and its redevelopment following the re-founding of the Priory in 1125. This tour has been curated especially to illuminate the Viking and Anglo-Saxon influences on the town’s...

Vikings at the Priory

Main Exhibition 27 May to 22 June The ‘Vikings at the Priory’ exhibition is open every day from 10am - 4pm (Sundays 11am - 4pm) including the Herefordshire Hoard ‘Revealing our Roots’ exhibit. Leominster Priory is a working church and some special services may be...

Viking Re-enactment Weekend 30 and 31 May

Leominster’s park – the Grange -  is being transformed by Regia Anglorum, a group of re-enactors - into a Viking village for the weekend of 30 & 31 May.  The actors will live like Vikings, eating, sleeping, singing, praying, playing and doing battle training....

Anglo Saxon Weaving Workshop

Our Anglo-Saxon and Viking ancestors made everything they wore by collecting and preparing the wool, spinning, dyeing and then weaving it. These traditional practices have been handed down across the centuries and are still used today. A regular Friday workshop run by...

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...

The VIOLETTE SZABO GC Museum

Introduction by Rosemary Rigby M.B.E. Founder of the Violette Szabo GC Museum A dream that became a reality on the 24th June 2000! During the 36 years I have lived at ‘Cartref House’ the idea of creating this unique memorial for Violette took root. Having already...

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...

Guided Walks in Historic Leominster

A 90 minute guided walk and talk. Join the tour as we trace Leominster's long history from the foundation of its minster church and first monastery in AD 660. The easy-paced tour, via historic landmarks of Leominster, begins and ends in Corn Square. Tickets £5.00...

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...

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...

Walk Leominster’s Anglo Saxon history

A special guided walking tour of Leominster focused on the town before the Normal conquest and its redevelopment following the re-founding of the Priory in 1125. This tour has been curated especially to illuminate the Viking and Anglo-Saxon influences on the town’s...

Vikings at the Priory

Main Exhibition 27 May to 22 June The ‘Vikings at the Priory’ exhibition is open every day from 10am - 4pm (Sundays 11am - 4pm) including the Herefordshire Hoard ‘Revealing our Roots’ exhibit. Leominster Priory is a working church and some special services may be...

Viking Re-enactment Weekend 30 and 31 May

Leominster’s park – the Grange -  is being transformed by Regia Anglorum, a group of re-enactors - into a Viking village for the weekend of 30 & 31 May.  The actors will live like Vikings, eating, sleeping, singing, praying, playing and doing battle training....

Anglo Saxon Weaving Workshop

Our Anglo-Saxon and Viking ancestors made everything they wore by collecting and preparing the wool, spinning, dyeing and then weaving it. These traditional practices have been handed down across the centuries and are still used today. A regular Friday workshop run by...

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...

The VIOLETTE SZABO GC Museum

Introduction by Rosemary Rigby M.B.E. Founder of the Violette Szabo GC Museum A dream that became a reality on the 24th June 2000! During the 36 years I have lived at ‘Cartref House’ the idea of creating this unique memorial for Violette took root. Having already...

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...

Guided Walks in Historic Leominster

A 90 minute guided walk and talk. Join the tour as we trace Leominster's long history from the foundation of its minster church and first monastery in AD 660. The easy-paced tour, via historic landmarks of Leominster, begins and ends in Corn Square. Tickets £5.00...

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...