The King's Head (Ross-on-Wye)

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On the High Street of Ross-on-Wye, the King’s Head is a former coaching inn claimed to date from the 14th century — Grade II listed, with oak beams and a big stone fireplace inside. It works as a central base for the market town and the wider Wye Valley, with food and rooms.

More places to visit near The King's Head (Ross-on-Wye)

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Wye Valley

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Monmouth

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

Herefordshire Trail

Long-distance path

A circuit of Herefordshire's five market towns — Ledbury, Ross, Kington, Leominster and Bromyard — through orchard and hop country.

here · Herefordshire

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Ross-on-Wye

Village

Market town perched on a sandstone cliff above a bend of the River Wye, gateway to the Wye Valley.

0.1 km SW · Herefordshire

Wye Valley Walk

Long-distance path

Following the Wye upstream from Chepstow's castle through gorge, orchard and moorland to the river's source country on Plynlimon.

0.2 km W · spans 4 counties

River Wye

River navigation

Britain's canoeing river, running lock-free down its wooded border gorge from Hay past Ross and Symonds Yat to the tide at Bigsweir.

0.3 km NW · spans 4 counties

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Goodrich Castle

Castle near Ross-on-Wye

Red-sandstone castle commanding the Wye valley.

4.7 km SW