A great little country market shop with licensed cafe and kitchen, oven ready meals and puds, store cupboard and toiletries, deli, bakery, meats fruit and veg, local alcohols and juices, orchards, wooded walks, children’s play, and garden centre! It is very dog friendly, and they do picnic hampers to take away (including their famous scotch eggs!) We love this place.

A beautifully crooked black&white coaching inn rumoured to date back as far as 800 years , simple pub grub, good beer and with a lovely garden it is great for families.

Country house hotel with high class restaurant championing local produce. They also offer traditional afternoon teas and cocktail classes.

Traditional country pub on a particularly picturesque bend of the River Wye. Good selection of ales and brilliant food.

A family favourite of ours for a carvery lunch 7 days a week and until 8pm on a sunday. Restaurant menu also. Great for families.

A shopping village with independent shops including clothes, award winning wine shop specialising in local wines/beer/spirits with a tasting area. Amazing toy shop with lots of wooden and unusual toys. restaurant, food shop, craft shops, gift shop, antiques, play area, garden centre etc. Set in and around the works houses of an old hop farm!

Fantastic gourmet burgers with all the trimmings! All Herefordshire produce and probably the best burgers you will find anywhere.

Their slightly newer next door sister company, the Bookshop champions the Hereford cow with it's steakhouse and the Observers' 2017 'Best UK Sunday Lunch'.

One of the oldest pubs in the county, there are rolling terraced lawns at the rear and a babbling brook and hidden nooks at the front. This was one of our favourite places to go as children and the perfect place to eat outside on warm evenings. There are both bar and restaurant menus and it won 'Best country pub of the year' 2017 in the Good Food Guide.

This area of Herefordshire is famous for it's cider and Westons are probably the most well known of the local producers. They have quite a facility here complete with restaurant, tea rooms, shop, shire horses and play area. They also run tours of the cider mill.

Traditional producers with an extensive range of styles and single varieties, very much for the enthusiasts. They have a shop and on Saturdays they open their ciderhouse and offer tastings all day. On other days they say if you phone ahead they should be able to show you round and let you try a few of their wares.

Particularly famous for their old variety perrys, Greggs' have an on site shop open thursday to monday (advisable to phone ahead) and on tuesdays and saturdays they run free deliveries to the local area! They are also very happy to arrange a guided 'Walk, Talk and Taste' through their ancient orchard, within which lies their equally venerable cloth and board stone press.

Our favourite local brewer, they have several pubs around the county and a shop at the brewery where they also offer tours. Their 'Butty Bach' is the quintessential British draught ale.

Producing classic English still and sparkling whites from their vines on the slopes of the Frome Valley, they have a shop open tue/wed/thursday and offer tastings and tours of the farm including a trellising system exhibition vineyard..

Previously having founded Tyrrells crisps the family are now distilling fine vodkas and gins from their own potatoes. They have an onsite shop and bar and they offer tours of their mixed farm and distillery.

Dating from the 12th century and still containing it's Norman font, this is where the eminent campanologist Fabien Stedman was raised and baptised. They are all about the bells here, welcoming visitors just to have a quick go or you can book an hour long bell ringing session!

Working farm attraction with animals large and small, ride on tractor play, soft play, full size bumpy tractor and trailer ride, sandpit adventure playground, haybarn climb and swing playground.

This massive early 19th century Neo-medieval Revival castle sits in a sprawling estate of woodland, farmland, lake, arboretum and deer park. The interior is a directory of 19thc interior design styles.Other than strolling round the castle and grounds there are many different events, activities and shows on throughout the year, and Eastnor is also the home of the limit testing Landrover Off Road Experience!

Looming over the River Wye, an English Heritage maintained and very well preserved Norman castle housing 'Roaring Meg', only surviving civil war mortar cannon. Regular civil war reenactments.

Ancient woodland on the steeper west slope, the east slope has some of the finest agricultural land anywhere in the world with evidence of Saxon ridge and furrow strips. Plants you may find include orchids, spurge laurel, and of course the glorious pear and apple trees of the Ridge.

9 arched 14th century bridge, Norman church, James Wyatt designed neo-classical Sufton Manor with grounds by Humphry Repton, traditional orchards and perhaps the Mordiford Wyvern!

Ancient woodland with myriad mosses and ferns, bluebells and bellflowers, riverside bends before rising up to Capler viewpoint for a spectacular view of the River Wye flood plain and an Iron Age hillfort.

850 acres of saxon owned woodland designated a SSSI due to it's national importance for butterflies and moths. There are miles of paths for walking and cycling some with picnic benches and information boards along the way.

From Colwall Station, quiet lanes, the sheltered banks of Cradley Brook, climbing for expansive views and dropping into the Frome Valley, up and down to the River Lodon and return to Colwall. There are several pubs and also Frome Valley Vineyard, Chase Distillery and the Hop Pocket along the route.