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Dist:0.4km north<br/>The notice for the farm and B&b calls it Upper Gilvach. The OS map shows it as Upper Gilfach
©Bob Embleton
Dist:0.7km east<br/>Taken from a spot just a few hundred metres from the church at St Margarets.
©Bob Embleton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>View to the east into the Golden Valley from beside Blackpool Wood
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>Farm buildings at Tanhouse Farm. The farm is situated next to the church.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>The east window in the chancel of St Margaret's church is of 'the path to the heavenly city' and is by the 20th century designer Archibald John Davies.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.1km northeast<br/>The Herefordshire Trail follows the hedge on the right before entering Chanstone Wood and descending to the small hamlet of Turnastone.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>The small isolated rural St Margarets Church contains a wonderful early sixteenth century rood screen. See: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/624679
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>Pevsner describes the early 16th century rood screen in St Margaret's Church as "..one of the wonders of Herefordshire, deliciously carved and in extremely good preservation. It is really a loft whose coving rests on two posts. The posts are covered with delicate, lacy ornament and have two little niches near the top, for statuettes."
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>
©Iain Macaulay
Dist:1.2km southeast<br/>Delicately Carved Tudor C1520s Rood Loft inside this hard to find Church
©Graham Burnett
Dist:1.2km south<br/>
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.2km north<br/>White House viewed from the Herefordshire Trail to the east.
©Philip Halling
Dist:1.4km north<br/>Just by the footpath that heads towards Cothill Farm.
©Stuart Wilding
Dist:1.4km northwest<br/>Country meadow at Merryhurst Green.
©Stuart Wilding
Dist:1.4km southeast<br/>A modest exterior concealing a breathtakingly delicate carved screen.
©Mike Hallett

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