Aymestrey

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Aymestrey
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St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey
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Aymestrey
Location within Herefordshire
Population351 (2011 Census)
District
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Leominster
Postcode district HR6
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52°17′N2°50′W / 52.283°N 2.833°W / 52.283; -2.833

Aymestrey ( /ˈmstr/ 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]

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Location

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.

Amenities and history

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.

The skull and other bones from the Aymestrey burial, at Leominster Museum Leominster Museum - 2014-07-11 - Andy Mabbett - 13.JPG
The skull and other bones from the Aymestrey burial, at Leominster Museum

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.

In fiction

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.”

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References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  2. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219784 geograph.org.uk
  3. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3 (North West), pp 9-15, HMSO, 1934, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3
  4. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/635376 geograph.org.uk
  5. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219796 geograph.org.uk
  6. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219810 geograph.org.uk
  7. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219775 geograph.org.uk
  8. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/71159 geograph.org.uk
  9. "Herefordshire Through Time - Monument Detail". Herefordshire County Council. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.

Coordinates: 52°17′N2°50′W / 52.283°N 2.833°W / 52.283; -2.833