Birch Wood

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Birch Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Herefordshire, covering 0.24 km². It is one of 70 SSSIs in the county. It lies inside the Wye Valley National Landscape.

For more of the same, Common Hill and Haugh Wood are close by. The closest station is Ledbury, about 11.1 km to the north-east.

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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.

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.

1.7 km W · spans 4 counties

Herefordshire Trail

Long-distance path

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

1.8 km NE · Herefordshire

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.

2.3 km S · spans 4 counties

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Hellens

Garden near Much Marcle

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

4.9 km E

St Mary's Church, Kempley

Ruined church near Much Marcle

Norman church in the countryside at Kempley, its chancel covered in rare 12th-century frescoes and its nave in paintings of the 1300s.

5.8 km E