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Map Reading Made Easy
Tuesday20thJune,2017. 9.00amto4.00pm
An easy walk in the countryside around Woolhope where you will learn and practice map reading skills which will give you the confidence and ability to plan and conduct your own walks.
Bring your own OS Explorer Map 189 (Hereford and Ross-on-Wye).
Distance 6 miles Meet Haugh Wood Map Ref G8 Organiser Bromyard Walking Group
Cost Adult £5.00 Child FREE
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By special permission, join your host Jocelyn and walk leader James for a family history tour of Homme House and its parkland.
The walk ‘n talk starts in St. Bartholomew’s Church – the resting place of Blanche Mortimer and the Kyrle family crypt and then moves up to Homme House for a tour of the main rooms, Grade 1 listed ‘summerhouse’ and a stroll around the walled garden.
Following this, an optional extra stroll around the designed parkland looking at landscape, trees and wildlife. Do ‘BYO’ to ‘picnic in the park’ before leaving.
Stately Stroll – Historic Homme
House and its Parkland
Tuesday, 20th June, 2017. 9.30am to 2.00pm
Distance 1-2 miles Meet Much Marcle Map Ref H9 Organiser James Bisset Cost Adult £5.00
Conservation in Action
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A guided walk through Credenhill Park Wood looking at its history, archaeology and its conservation. Credenhill Park Wood contains the second largest Iron Age Hillfort in Britain and is owned by the Woodland Trust.
The walk is intended to describe the surviving archaeology on the site, the landscape history of the site and the ongoing conservation management of such an impressive monument and its environs.
Distance 3 miles Meet Credenhill Map Ref D7
Organiser Herefordshire Archaeology. Cost Adult £5.00 Child FREE
Tuesday, 20th June, 2017. 10.00am to 1.00pm
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