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...
WEDNESDAY 20 MAY
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...
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,...
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 Confessor and the Godfather
Kris Johnston, a retired lawyer, focuses on the Wars of the Roses in a lecture entitled The Confessor and the Godfather. This is a story of four Kings, three Suns, two Bishops and no heirs. Who was the Confessor? Who was the Godfather? What is the unique link that...
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...
Elizabethan Wall Paintings in Wellington
All bookings must be made via Eventbrite please. This is not a drop in event - only visitors with tickets via Eventbrite may attend. Link to booking page. During house improvements and redecoration in 2018, the home owners of Church House Farm uncovered paintings...
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...
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...
Herefordshire History Pub Quiz
For teams of up to five people this quiz night, hosted by Hereford Civic Society in the Brewery Room, will be the second of two on successive Wednesdays during the Festival. The theme is Herefordshire history. 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. £3 per person
Leominster History Society
Programme 2026 Wednesday, March 18th - TIM HOVERD The story of Snodhill Castle, in the Golden Valley between Peterchurch and Dorstone. A unique castle with an extraordinary history. Wednesday, April 15th - DAVID LOVELACE Leominster landscape and agriculture. The...
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...
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...
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,...
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 Confessor and the Godfather
Kris Johnston, a retired lawyer, focuses on the Wars of the Roses in a lecture entitled The Confessor and the Godfather. This is a story of four Kings, three Suns, two Bishops and no heirs. Who was the Confessor? Who was the Godfather? What is the unique link that...
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...
Elizabethan Wall Paintings in Wellington
All bookings must be made via Eventbrite please. This is not a drop in event - only visitors with tickets via Eventbrite may attend. Link to booking page. During house improvements and redecoration in 2018, the home owners of Church House Farm uncovered paintings...
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...
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...
Herefordshire History Pub Quiz
For teams of up to five people this quiz night, hosted by Hereford Civic Society in the Brewery Room, will be the second of two on successive Wednesdays during the Festival. The theme is Herefordshire history. 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start. £3 per person
Leominster History Society
Programme 2026 Wednesday, March 18th - TIM HOVERD The story of Snodhill Castle, in the Golden Valley between Peterchurch and Dorstone. A unique castle with an extraordinary history. Wednesday, April 15th - DAVID LOVELACE Leominster landscape and agriculture. The...
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...