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Aymestrey | |
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St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey | |
Location within
Herefordshire | |
Population | 351 (2011 Census) |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Leominster |
Postcode district | HR6 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Aymestrey ( /ˈeɪmstriː/ AYM-stree) is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351. [1]
It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.
Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages, [2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, [3] [4] a village hall [5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn, [6] situated next to River Lugg [7] just off the main road.
The Mortimer Trail [8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.
In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working. [9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.
Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”
52°17′N 2°50′W / 52.283°N 2.833°W
This article has an unclear
citation style. (June 2019) |
Aymestrey | |
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St John the Baptist and St Alkmund's Church, Aymestrey | |
Location within
Herefordshire | |
Population | 351 (2011 Census) |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Leominster |
Postcode district | HR6 |
Police | West Mercia |
Fire | Hereford and Worcester |
Ambulance | West Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
Aymestrey ( /ˈeɪmstriː/ AYM-stree) is a village and civil parish in north-western Herefordshire, England. The population of this civil parish, including the hamlet of Yatton, at the 2011 Census was 351. [1]
It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.
Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages, [2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund, [3] [4] a village hall [5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn, [6] situated next to River Lugg [7] just off the main road.
The Mortimer Trail [8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.
In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working. [9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.
Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”
52°17′N 2°50′W / 52.283°N 2.833°W