Bromyard The Downs

The Downs provide a stunning backdrop to Bromyard town.

Rising to over 700 feet, Bromyard Downs dominate the local area and form an impressive backdrop to the market town of Bromyard.

Bromyard Downs Common is a 114ha registered common. It has long been common land, manorial waste of the ancient Manor of Bromyard, as well as a place of recreation, for the local community and visitors.

Indeed, the unimproved nature of the Downs attracts walkers from everywhere. A long s-shaped hill, rising to over 700 feet, with a westerly/south westerly aspect. From its dramatic summit the whole of the ancient manor unfolds on all sides.

It forms a key part of an important historic and ecological landscape being linked to the Brockhampton Estate (Registered Parkland) through Warren Wood, and to the nearby extensive Bringsty Common. As a living landscape that links into the nearby Suckley Hills and on to the Malverns.

You can find much more information about Bromyard Downs here.
To find out more about Bromyard you can also visit their website here: http://www.visitbromyard.co.uk

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Shobdon Airfeild

Shobdon Airfield. located in the Marches on the England Wales borders. 

It the only licensed airfield in Herefordshire. Formerly the Pembridge landing ground, Shobdon Airfield has been in operation since 1941 with a fascinating wartime history as a glider training base.

Home of Herefordshire Aero Club for over 50 years.
 
They offer flight training packages to suit every budding Private Pilot intensive courses, with the option of onsite accommodation, or learn at a more leisurely pace to fit around your work commitments with our team of friendly and professional instructors.

For more information you can find on their website: http://shobdonairfield.co.uk

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Leominsters Grange Court

Grange Court is a timber-framed market hall built by John Abel in 1633.

The building has had many different functions in its near 400-year life.

The building originally stood at the top of Broad Street in Leominster and housed the weekly butter market, selling chickens, eggs, and butter. It was then known as the Butter Crosse.

By the mid nineteenth century, the market hall was proving a traffic hazard in the town centre.

The building was dismantled and lay in pieces in a builder’s yard until 1859, when the building was bought by John Arkwright (of the spinning jenny family). It was then rebuilt on the park known as the Grange and, with some modifications, leased to the Moore family.

Grange Court remained a family home until 1939, when Leominster District Council made a compulsory purchase to save it from being moved to South Wales to become the gatehouse to St. Donats Castle.

The Borough Council, then the District Council, and later the County Council had offices in Grange Court until 2008, when the redevelopment began to turn it into a Heritage site for visitors to come and see.

More information on Grange Court can be found here on http://www.grangecourt.org
Or if you are really interested in learning first hand why not Visit? http://www.grangecourt.org/find-us

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