Hereford Cathedral

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Hereford Cathedral

Sitting Center stage at the heart of the City of Hereford, in the English county of Herefordshire, is the Hereford Cathedral.

A Cathedral dedicated to the martyred King Ethelbert has stood on this site since Saxon times and is home to a community which has worshiped and worked together here continuously for well over 1200 years.

Also Hereford cathedral is home to the world renowned Mappa Mundi & Chained Library which is an Exhibition that is open all year round for people to come and look at.

For directions to find Hereford Cathedral click here.

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Hampton Court Castle

The estate was originally formed by the merging of the manors of Hampton Richard and Hampton Mappenor.

It was granted by Henry IV to Sir Rowland Lenthall at the time of his marriage to Margaret Fitzalan, daughter of the Earl of Arundel and a cousin of the King.

Lenthall built the original quadrangular manor house in 1427, twelve years after his knighthood at the battle of Agincourt. In 1434 he was granted a license to crenelate the house by Henry VI.

Sir Rowland was succeeded by his daughter who married the Baron of Burford and it was their grandson who sold Hampton Court to Sir Humphrey Coningsby in 1510.

Hampton Court remained in the Coningsby family, a prominent noble Herefordshire family, until the early 19th Century when the estate was purchased by Richard Arkwright, the son of the famous inventor.

Richard Arkwright's son, John, then commissioned the remodeling of the house in the 1830's and 40's, the work being designed and carried out by Charles Hanbury Tracy, later Lord Sudeley. The Arkwrights lived at Hampton Court until 1912.

To find out more about Hampton Court Castle please feel free to visit their website: http://www.hamptoncourt.org.uk

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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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