Hergest Ridge

#1670 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Hergest Ridge is a large elongated hill which traverses the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom, between the town of Kington in Herefordshire and the village of Gladestry in Powys. Its highest point, which is in England, is 426 metres high. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 1398 ftProminence: 518 ftCoordinates: 52°11'58"N, 3°5'26"W

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WalesUnited Kingdom

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Hergest Ridge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kington Museum, Ye Olde Tavern, Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge, St Stephen's Church.

2.6 miE
History museum, Museum
Kington Museum, Kington
68 min walk • Kington Museum is a volunteer-run local history museum in the market town of Kington, Herefordshire, England. It opened in June 1986 and occupies the stable block of the former King’s Head Inn. The building was extended in 1988, 1991 and 2005.
2.8 miE
Nightlife
Ye Olde Tavern, Kington
73 min walk • Ye Olde Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 22 Victoria Rd, Kington, Herefordshire, England, built in the late 18th/early 19th century. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, and features a parlour, public bar, plus a side-room, into which beer is provided via a serving hatch.
5.5 miS
Bridge
Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge
140 min walk • Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge is a single-carriageway, wood- and stone-construction in Herefordshire, England. The toll bridge carries the B4350 south from its junction with the A438, near Whitney-on-Wye, across the River Wye. It comprises two Grade II listed structures.
1.8 miN
Church
St Stephen's Church
46 min walk • St Stephen's Church is a Church of England parish church in Old Radnor, Powys, Wales. It was constructed in the 15th century in perpendicular gothic style on the site of a 6th-century church.
6.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Black Mixen
159 min walk • Black Mixen is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.
6.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Rhos Fawr
168 min walk • Rhos Fawr is a mountain summit in the Radnor Forest, a rather isolated dome of hills to the north of the village of New Radnor. The local rocks are sedimentary shales and mudstones with some Silurian limestone. With a height of 660 metres, it is the highest point in the Radnor Forest and the historic county top of Radnorshire.
5.7 miSE
Park
Eardisley Castle
146 min walk • Eardisley Castle was in the village of Eardisley in Herefordshire, England, 11 km north-east of Hay-on-Wye. The site of the castle is a scheduled monument. This was an 11th-century motte and bailey castle with a moat around the bailey filled by a stream. It is recorded in the Domesday Book as being held by Robert from Roger de Lacy.
3.5 miNE
Prehistoric site
Burfa Castle
90 min walk • Burfa Castle is an Iron Age hillfort near the tiny town of Old Radnor, Radnorshire in Powys, Wales. The site is a scheduled monument described as a prehistoric defensive hillfort, and was included in an inventory of monuments by 1913.
6.8 miNE
Forts and castles
Wapley Hill
174 min walk • Wapley Hill is an Iron Age hill fort in Herefordshire, England, 3 km south-east of Presteigne.
2.2 miE
Forts and castles
Kington Castle, Kington
57 min walk • Kington Castle stood in the medieval market town of Kington in Herefordshire, England. It was built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1215.
7.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Hay Castle
184 min walk • Hay Castle is a medieval fortification and 17th-century mansion house in the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales. Originally constructed as part of the Norman invasion of Wales, the castle was designed as a ringwork overlooking the town in either the late-11th or early-12th centuries.