Park at Warehouse 701, in Rotherwas Industrial Estate to walk a 1km route to Rotherwas chapel discovering hidden history on route. Through woodland, past a historic lake and ending at Rotherwas chapel. Explore the chapel grounds and find out more about the history...
SOUTH HEREFORDSHIRE
Talk – Wartime Evacuation
Wartime Evacuation – The Royal Hospital Chelsea and Ross-on-Wye In St Mary’s churchyard is a memorial to 22 Chelsea Pensioners and an Officer of the Royal Hospital Chelsea who died whilst evacuated to Ross-on-Wye during the Second World War. There is also a memorial...
Talk – Medieval Saints
An illustrated talk by Dr Janet Cooper - St Mary’s Church, 
Ross-on-Wye Wednesday 13th May 2.15pm (please note changed date) - £10 (with refreshments) payable at the door The accounts of saints’ lives written in the Middle Ages might be seen as early biographies, but...
Ross-on-Wye Historical Treasure Hunt
Saturday 23rd May, 10am - 4pm. Challenge your brain, learn some of the town's history, and maybe win a prize! The Museum Without Walls is Ross's virtual museum. You just need your smart phone or tablet to take part. All the answers are in the app, or at the 12 museum...
Walk: Almshouses of Ross-on-Wye
Ross Heritage Walks - Almshouses Past and Present - led by local historian, Heather Hurley. Revealing the story of the benefactors who endowed houses for the less fortunate of Ross from Copse Cross to Cawdor. The walk will take about 90 minutes and will be gentle,...
Violette Szabo Museum Special Event
Very Important – Violette’s Special Day 2026 Violette’s special anniversary day will take place on Sunday 12th July 2026 at 1-30pm The Parade will leave from the Park in Wormelow at 1.30pm led by a Highland Piper. It will enter the Rosemary Rigby Millennium Green, on...
Fair Oak Cider Open Weekend
On Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, from 11 till 5, the mill and press at Fair Oak Farm in Bacton HR2 0AT will be open to visitors; and Featherstone, the young mill horse, will be offering dray rides. Fair Oak's prize-winning ciders, made in the only horse-powered...
Clodock Mill Open Days
Clodock Mill was originally one of the manorial mills of the Ewyas Lacy marcher lordship, once in Wales, now in Herefordshire, dating back to the 13th century or earlier. The present buildings date from the 17th century onwards with the main machinery installed in...
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.)Â The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights...
Voices from the River Wye
In the summer of 2017, Marsha O’Mahony travelled up and down the Wye in Herefordshire recording the experiences of the people who have lived and worked on the river, or simply been drawn to its waters in search of recreation or a jam jar of minnows. Thanks to then a...
We Will Remember Them
Jennifer Harrison will show how we remember those from Herefordshire who died in the service of our country. Jennifer will look at all the many different ways we commemorate them in the towns and villages throughout the county. She will also take us further...
Horse Drawn Tramways
The early tramways of the Wye Valley were a short-lived transport system of horse-drawn waggons on rails operating from the late eighteenth century to the introduction of steam locomotives, primarily used for transporting goods such as coal, lime and minerals.
Nicholas de Hereford, Rebel Cleric, Papal Prisoner and Bible Translator
 Nicholas studied at the University of Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1370 and earned in 1382 the degree of Doctor of Theology. Nicholas criticized the luxury of the Church and reaffirmed the right of every Christian to attain his own faith by reading the Bible....
Discovering Rotherwas Chapel
Park at Warehouse 701, in Rotherwas Industrial Estate to walk a 1km route to Rotherwas chapel discovering hidden history on route. Through woodland, past a historic lake and ending at Rotherwas chapel. Explore the chapel grounds and find out more about the history...
Talk – Wartime Evacuation
Wartime Evacuation – The Royal Hospital Chelsea and Ross-on-Wye In St Mary’s churchyard is a memorial to 22 Chelsea Pensioners and an Officer of the Royal Hospital Chelsea who died whilst evacuated to Ross-on-Wye during the Second World War. There is also a memorial...
Talk – Medieval Saints
An illustrated talk by Dr Janet Cooper - St Mary’s Church, 
Ross-on-Wye Wednesday 13th May 2.15pm (please note changed date) - £10 (with refreshments) payable at the door The accounts of saints’ lives written in the Middle Ages might be seen as early biographies, but...
Ross-on-Wye Historical Treasure Hunt
Saturday 23rd May, 10am - 4pm. Challenge your brain, learn some of the town's history, and maybe win a prize! The Museum Without Walls is Ross's virtual museum. You just need your smart phone or tablet to take part. All the answers are in the app, or at the 12 museum...
Walk: Almshouses of Ross-on-Wye
Ross Heritage Walks - Almshouses Past and Present - led by local historian, Heather Hurley. Revealing the story of the benefactors who endowed houses for the less fortunate of Ross from Copse Cross to Cawdor. The walk will take about 90 minutes and will be gentle,...
Violette Szabo Museum Special Event
Very Important – Violette’s Special Day 2026 Violette’s special anniversary day will take place on Sunday 12th July 2026 at 1-30pm The Parade will leave from the Park in Wormelow at 1.30pm led by a Highland Piper. It will enter the Rosemary Rigby Millennium Green, on...
Fair Oak Cider Open Weekend
On Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, from 11 till 5, the mill and press at Fair Oak Farm in Bacton HR2 0AT will be open to visitors; and Featherstone, the young mill horse, will be offering dray rides. Fair Oak's prize-winning ciders, made in the only horse-powered...
Clodock Mill Open Days
Clodock Mill was originally one of the manorial mills of the Ewyas Lacy marcher lordship, once in Wales, now in Herefordshire, dating back to the 13th century or earlier. The present buildings date from the 17th century onwards with the main machinery installed in...
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.)Â The earliest record of a monastery in Garway is 615 AD, but it was with the arrival of the Knights...
Voices from the River Wye
In the summer of 2017, Marsha O’Mahony travelled up and down the Wye in Herefordshire recording the experiences of the people who have lived and worked on the river, or simply been drawn to its waters in search of recreation or a jam jar of minnows. Thanks to then a...
We Will Remember Them
Jennifer Harrison will show how we remember those from Herefordshire who died in the service of our country. Jennifer will look at all the many different ways we commemorate them in the towns and villages throughout the county. She will also take us further...
Horse Drawn Tramways
The early tramways of the Wye Valley were a short-lived transport system of horse-drawn waggons on rails operating from the late eighteenth century to the introduction of steam locomotives, primarily used for transporting goods such as coal, lime and minerals.
Nicholas de Hereford, Rebel Cleric, Papal Prisoner and Bible Translator
 Nicholas studied at the University of Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1370 and earned in 1382 the degree of Doctor of Theology. Nicholas criticized the luxury of the Church and reaffirmed the right of every Christian to attain his own faith by reading the Bible....