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Welcome to the 2018
HEREFORDSHIRE
Walking Festival
Nine days – forty-three walks and one beautiful county to explore...
The Mortimer Trail returns to the Walking Festival in three sections over the first weekend, from Kington to Ludlow. Kington is the starting point for the first two sections and Leominster for the last leg, with transfers included.
It is certainly a programme with a difference for 2018. Lots of ‘good walks’ over beautiful countryside interleaved with a cycle ride, the twenty-miler through South Herefordshire which was fully booked last year, the chance to learn and practise your map reading skills in real time with guidance on hand, ‘walking art’ explained by Jess Allen or join poet Jean Atkin from the Ledbury Poetry Festival (29th June to 8th July 2018) walking through ancient woodland. There’s even an opportunity to follow Phil Rickman, creator of Merrily Watkins, Advisor on the Paranormal, in the Herefordshire borderlands, as he discusses some Hereford locations from the books.
Kentchurch Court has opened its gardens; ancient and modern cider orchards plus a Cider Museum tour; walks around Croft Castle with
a private tour of the walled garden; turnpike roads, drovers’ roads,
a Roman road. Storytelling as you walk through old estates; the ancient landscapes explained by a geologist or through an app on smartphone or tablet that helps you to observe the rocks encountered en route;
a cider tribute to the Solstice. You will never fit it all in!
Come and walk with us, enjoying the lovely countryside and local produce for which Herefordshire is renowned, in the care and company of friends.
Our sincere thanks go to all who lead, back-up and
work together voluntarily to make the Herefordshire Walking Festival the success it has achieved in the seventeen years since its inception and to Steve and Sue Dennis for their important contribution to its future...
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