Aymestrey | |
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![]() St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey | |
Location within Herefordshire | |
Population | 351 (2011 Census) |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Leominster |
Postcode district | HR6 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
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Aymestrey ( /ˈeɪmstriː/ AYM-stree) is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351. [1]
It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.
Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages, [2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, [3] [4] a village hall [5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn, [6] situated next to River Lugg [7] just off the main road.
The Mortimer Trail [8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.
In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working. [9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.
Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”
The River Lugg rises near Llangynllo, Powys. It flows through the border town of Presteigne, Wales then through Herefordshire, England, to the south of Leominster where it meets a tributary, the River Arrow. Its confluence with the River Wye is at Mordiford, 9 miles (14 km) downstream of Hereford and 45 miles (72 km) from its source.
Moreton on Lugg is a village in Herefordshire, England, between Hereford, 4.25 miles (6.84 km) to the south, and Leominster, to the north.
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Bircher Common is an area of lowland heath in the civil parish of Croft and Yarpole in Herefordshire, England, and 6 miles (10 km) north from Leominster. The common, owned by the National Trust, is adjacent at the west to Croft Castle, a further National Trust Property. Croft Ambrey, an Iron Age hill fort, is to the north-west within the border of the neighbouring parish of Aymestrey.
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