Herefordshire Trail
A 154-mile long-distance walk circuit of Herefordshire, visiting historic towns, villages, and celebrated landmarks. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SO 710 377
Distance: 154 miles (248 km)
Time: 65–77 hours
Duration: 10–14 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
OL13 Brecon Beacons / Bannau Brycheiniog: Eastern Area
OL14 Wye Valley and Forest of Dean
189 Hereford and Ross-on-Wye
190 Malvern Hills and Bredon Hill
201 Knighton and Presteigne / Tref-y-Clawdd a Llanandras
202 Leominster, Bromyard and Hereford North
203 Ludlow, Tenbury Wells and Cleobury Mortimer
Summary
The Herefordshire Trail is a long-distance walking route making a circuit of the county, visiting five market towns, many delightful villages, and Herefordshire’s attractive and fertile countryside, which varies from the Malvern Hills in the east to the Black Mountains in the west. The trail crosses rich arable land, apple orchards, hopfields, woodlands, and river valleys. Beginning and ending in Ledbury, the route visits Putley, Ross-on-Wye, Peterstow, King’s Caple, Little Dewchurch, Wormelow Tump, Kilpeck, Bagwyllydiart, White Rocks, Kentchurch, Pontrilas, Ewyas Harold, Abbey Dore, St Margarets, the Golden Valley, Peterchurch, Dorstone, the Wye Valley, Little Merthyr, Eardisley, Kington, Offa’s Dyke, Titley, Upper Kinsham, Lingen, Harley’s Mountain, Brampton Bryan, Leintwardine, Bringewood, Burrington, Richards Castle, Orleton, Luston, Eyton, Leominster, Pudleston, Hatfield, Edwyn Ralph, Bromyard, Bishop’s Frome, Bosbury, and Wellington Heath.