Places to explore in HerefordshireEngland · West Midlands

Red-sandstone castle commanding the Wye valley.

Great sandstone cathedral on the Wye, home to the medieval Mappa Mundi and the world's finest surviving chained library.

Ancient ridge rising abruptly above the Severn plain.

7.5 km²

Twin-mouthed cave in the wooded Wye gorge near Symonds Yat, holding evidence of Ice Age human and animal life.

Museum in the former Bulmers factory in Hereford, with champagne-cider cellars dating from 1889 telling the story of cider making.

The original Norman chancel arches of Shobdon church, re-erected as a weathered hilltop folly in 1756.

The quiet valley of the River Dore in western Herefordshire, a run of rolling farmland, castle ruins and old churches.

A Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms in a cluster of historic farm buildings near Ludlow.

Jacobean manor at Much Marcle with walled gardens, a knot garden, orchard and octagonal dovecote, long home of the Munthe family.

A steep little ridge of very old rock rising straight out of the Severn plain, with easy tops and views for miles

107 km²

A wooded river gorge winding along the Wales–England border, past Tintern Abbey down to Chepstow.

327 km²

Neolithic burial chamber with a huge capstone.