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Dist:0.5km north<br/>
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.7km west<br/>The transmitter on Garway Hill is always a useful point of reference when viewing the hills of south Herefordshire for a distance.
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.9km south<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.9km north<br/>
©Philip Halling
Dist:0.9km west<br/>In June 1941, three RAF men spent three weeks assessing whether Garway Hill was a suitable site for a radio transmitter, shortly after a brick structure with an octagonal wooden tower was constructed on top. The structure was 25 feet high with a conical roof through which an aerial/transmitter protruded. Eight wooden stanchions reaching down over the wall supported the tower, each stanchion was anchored in concrete, these can still be seen today. The brick wall is 7 feet high and 14 inches thick. Nearby was an accommodation block and also an engine house supplying electrical power to the transmitter. The wooden tower was demolished and removed in 1948; however, the accommodation block remained until the 1970s. Information from ‘Garway Hill through the Ages’ by Joan and Brian Thomas, Logaston Press.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.0km west<br/>At 366m (1201ft) Garway Hill provides a good viewpoint for south Herefordshire and westwards into Wales. This is a view to the south-west with Ysgyryd (Skirrid) and Sugarloaf in the distance.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.2km east<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>An area of common land no longer heavily grazed to covered in bracken - walkers' feet are the only thing stopping it covering the whole area!
©Hugh Venables
Dist:1.4km southwest<br/>This small hamlet is situated on the southern slopes of Garway Hill.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.4km north<br/>
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.4km northwest<br/>Court-a-Grove Farm is on the slopes of Garway Hill. The Black Mountains can be seen on the horizon.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.5km southeast<br/>Newly built building on the roadside.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.6km northeast<br/>One of the many ingenious business diversifications to be found in our countryside.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.7km northeast<br/>This dairy farm is given on the map as Burrup.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.7km east<br/>View across higher ground (800') in south-west Herefordshire.
©Jonathan Billinger

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