{"id":2921,"date":"2018-04-09T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2018-04-10T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T20:11:09","slug":"ledbury-and-colwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Ledbury and Colwall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ledbury is a picturesque market town from the 11th<\/sup> century located within a beautiful section of Herefordshire. We visited during part of the Easter weekend and the countryside had a stark beauty prior to the arrival of spring. Many Tudor buildings provided picturesque glimpses of a bygone era. The town appeared vibrant with a strong sense of community. \u00a0\u00a0We stayed at the Royal Oak Hotel, a 15th<\/sup> century inn with friendly and helpful managers. An Indian restaurant across the road provided fine food and service.<\/p>\n

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Royal Oak Hotel – white building<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wall<\/a>

Wall showing construction methods<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Panelled<\/a>

Panelled Room – the only one<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Ledbury-Park-15th-Century.<\/a>

Ledbury-Park-15th-Century. Situated opposite the Royal Oak Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

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House on stilts<\/p><\/div>\n

\"New<\/a>

New St and Talbot Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

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New St<\/p><\/div>\n

\"High<\/a>

High St Ledbury<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Feathers<\/a>

Feathers Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Feather<\/a>

Feather carved into wood<\/p><\/div>\n

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St Katherine’s Hospital and Alms Houses<\/p><\/div>\n

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Market House<\/p><\/div>\n

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Church Lane<\/p><\/div>\n

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Magistrates House on right<\/p><\/div>\n

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Church in Ledbury<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Baptismal<\/a>

Baptismal Font<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bath for people in almshouses. Found in museum on Church Lane. The grandfather clock was made in Ledbury.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clogs in museum<\/p><\/div>\n

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The real reason for visiting Ledbury was to try and access the location which the Vick family had farmed for about 10 years during the 1830s and 1840s. Prior to visiting the old farm we visited the church at Colwall which would have been the family\u2019s local church. The Vicks two youngest daughters were baptised there in 1837 and 1841.<\/p>\n

Below is scenery seen between Ledbury and Colwall.<\/p>\n

\"Scenery<\/a><\/p>\n

Scenery between Ledbury and Colwall<\/p>\n

\"Hill<\/a>

Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Scenery\"<\/a>

Scenery<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Scenic<\/a>

Scenic roadway<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Daffodils<\/a>

Daffodils and farmland beside church car park<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Back<\/a>

Back view of the church<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Inside Church of St James the Great at Colwall<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Baptismal<\/a>

Baptismal font St James the Great Colwall<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Date<\/a>

Date on rafter<\/p><\/div>\n

\"St<\/a>

St James the Great Church from front<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Church<\/a>

Church and Church Ale House<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Inside the Church Ale House. The church used to brew and sell its own<\/p><\/div>\n

This post has created endless technical problems. The photos from the\u00a0 old Vick property will be in the next blog.<\/p>\n

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Ledbury is a picturesque market town from the 11th century located within a beautiful section of Herefordshire. We visited during part of the Easter weekend and the countryside had a stark beauty prior to the arrival of spring. Many Tudor buildings provided picturesque glimpses of a bygone era. The town appeared vibrant with a strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,119,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history","category-ledbury-and-colwall","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}