Aymestrey

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Location

It is located on the A4110 road, about 7 miles north-west of Leominster and 8 miles south-west of the historic market town of Ludlow, in south Shropshire. The village is on the River Lugg.

Amenities and history

Aymestrey is home to several homes and cottages,[2] the church dedicated to St John the Baptist and St Alkmund,[3][4] a village hall[5] and a pub or Inn: The Riverside Inn,[6] situated next to River Lugg[7] just off the main road.

The Mortimer Trail[8] waymarked recreational walk passes through the village.

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The skull and other bones from the Aymestrey burial, at Leominster Museum

In 1987, the Aymestrey burial, an Early Bronze Age, beaker cist, was discovered during gravel working.[9] It has since been recreated at Leominster Museum.

In fiction

Aymestrey is featured in the supernatural crime novel Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, where it is described as being "less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.”

References

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  2. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219784 geograph.org.uk
  3. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, Volume 3 (North West), pp 9-15, HMSO, 1934, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/heref/vol3
  4. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/635376 geograph.org.uk
  5. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219796 geograph.org.uk
  6. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219810 geograph.org.uk
  7. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/219775 geograph.org.uk
  8. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/71159 geograph.org.uk
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