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Dist:0.2km<br/>A456 eastbound
©John Firth
Dist:0.3km<br/>The remains of an aqueduct on the Leominster Canal where it crosses the river Teme. It was destroyed by the Home Guard during a training session in WW2.
©Martin Horwood
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©Peter Whatley
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:0.4km<br/>Orchards and buildings at Brimfield Cross. Taken over the hedge of the football ground.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>A bend and eddy in the River Teme, reputed home of a malevolent mermaid. Folk have drowned here. This used to be the end of the road for me when canoeing on the river. I could not go further as I could not transfer the boat upstream from Little Hereford. I could however paddle and line back home from here. I found this place very frightening when on the water.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>Wooferton's main pitch, H/Aynal Lane.. the sports field is divided by a grid line - they have another pitch in SO5367. According to the film title, goalkeepers are afraid of penalties, but this view of the goal from the spot is terrifying. Note the quality of facilities in village football today. Last time I saw Wooferton play they had to remove the cow muck from the pitch first. That was in the early 1970s at their old pitch at SO513618
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>Home of Wooferton FC. There are now two pitches, one is in SO5368 and this one belongs here with a view to farmland rising from the Teme Valley. Amusing homophones apart, modern maps spell it "Haynall" but like Spanish, Herefordian English does not do initial "H"s....
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>Flat field beside the Teme. This was for many years used for soft fruit growing. Water from the Teme would be sprayed on the crops on frosty evenings to prevent frost damage. There was once a somewhat gnarley oak tree in the middle of the field.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>This, the Shropshire- Herefordshire border is now the end of the old road to Worcester and beyond from Ludlow. Although there is no hard evidence, it is probable that Prince Arthur Tudor's funeral cortege passed this way travelling to the burial in Worcester Cathedral. The road fell into disuse, being replaced by routes via Tinkers Hill or Wooferton, and then selfish landowners pounced closing it all together. It remains a footpath on the Little Hereford side, but is still a road, although unsurfaced on the Ashford Carbonel side. Don't drive down here though, you cannot turn. I still hope that one day the road will be at least reopened for bikes, providing a safe exit from the village towards Tenbury. I used the road a lot as a transport resource in the 1970s and 1980s. It is a very useful shortcut.
©Richard Webb
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©Peter Whatley
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:1.0km<br/>Now only a road as far as the county boundary - Herefordshire C.C. downgraded their side to a footpath.
©Richard Webb
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©Peter Whatley
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The rights of way system took a battering in this area in the 1960s with paths successfully closed and this road downgraded to a footpath. It ensures that Ashford Carbonel remains a cul de sac village with the unpleasant consequences of high house prices and being chosen for "exclusivity". It was never surfaced and now is only a track for part of the route, there being a few fields to cross on the Little Hereford side. Used to be a very muddy track, but is well surfaced now. There are even neighbourhood watch signs aimed at those hardy criminals walking in. Who pays?
©Richard Webb

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