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Kilpeck

Photo of Kilpeck, a village in Herefordshire, central England.

Kilpeck

© Philip Halling / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Philip Halling / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Kilpeck

Local highlight

Norman church with astonishing Romanesque carvings.

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Kilpeck’s church is world-famous for its carving. Built of red sandstone around 1140, St Mary and St David keeps a spectacular Norman south doorway and a corbel table of some eighty-odd stone heads and beasts running round the eaves — among them the best-known sheela-na-gig in England. The church is open and free; the village around it is tiny. Hereford station is about 12km to the north-east.

More places to visit near Kilpeck

Photo along the Herefordshire Trail, a 154-mile long-distance path in central England.

Herefordshire Trail

Long-distance path

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

0.2 km E · Herefordshire

Photo of the Wye Valley, a National Landscape in England and Wales.Highlight

Wye Valley

National Landscape near Monmouth

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

7.2 km E

Photo of Church of St Nicholas, a church near Grosmont, Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

Church of St Nicholas

Church near Grosmont

Unusually large 13th-century parish church at Grosmont, reflecting the importance of the borough when it was built.

7.2 km SW

Photo of Gwatkin Cider, a farm & farm shop near Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, central England.

Gwatkin Cider

Farm & farm shop near Abbey Dore

Golden Valley farm at Abbey Dore making over thirty naturally fermented ciders and perries, with a daily shop and cafe.

7.6 km NW

Photo of the River Wye, a river navigation running from Hay-on-Wye to Bigsweir Bridge, England and Wales.

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.

9 km N · spans 4 counties

Photo along the Wye Valley Walk, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Chepstow to Plynlimon, Wales and England.

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.

9.1 km N · spans 4 counties