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Herefordshire
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Stunning views, enchanting gardens, castles, country houses, history and heritage is what makes Herefordshire such a special place to visit. With properties dating to the Doomsday Book, vibrant communities ensure the county’s culture, history and traditions are celebrated vigorously by locals and visitors alike.
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Festivals
There are festivals for everything; food, flying, scarecrows, music, art, you simply MUST experience a Wassail! and a country fair or show around each of Herefordshire’s five market towns of Kington, Leominster, Bromyard, Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye.
Food & Drink
A hotbed of artisan producers from bread to rapeseed oils, honeys and preserves, crisps and an abundance of beverages. Herefordshire turns its hops into beer, grapes into wine, blackcurrants into cassis and cordial, even potatoes into gin and vodka, and, most famously, apples into cider. The original home of brand icons Bulmers, Westons, Chase and Tyrrells,
food and farming is the lifeblood of the county. Book on one of the fantastic food and drink experiences on page 36. Famous for its Hereford Cattle, the distinctive red and cream beasts put Herefordshire on the map all over the world for their tender flavoursome meat. The county’s nutrient-rich soil providing a complimentary plethora of earthy produce and ingredients.
Wassailing in Herefordshire
What some may not know is that there is a special ingredient that goes into Herefordshire cider and that’s the apple ‘Wassail’.
So what’s an apple ‘Wassail’? Well it was
a practice first recorded in 1585 and Wassailing (Wassail meaning ‘Good
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