Our new book of ten carefully researched walks with the bus will make a great gift for yourself or a friend. All of our walks are between 3 and 10 miles and generally quite gentle, on lanes, tracks and pathways with few steep climbs – though sometimes muddy! All the walks can be completed without …
Friday 14th June will see a timetable update for the 232 Daffodil Line bus service, with an earlier morning departure from Ledbury aimed at delivering a more punctual school run for John Masefield pupils.
Tied to the traditional end of Christmas festivities on Twelfth Night the Wassail has roots that almost certainly go back to pre-Christian times. And it’s still alive and well in the orchards along the Daffodil Line. So this year, why not see in the new year in unique and traditional fashion, and join the Wassail in Much Marcle.
Buses provide a place and a means for us to chat and connect with each other and the countryside around us, and I have found that one of the other best ways of connecting with the countryside is actually by eating it!
The Big Apple Harvestime weekend is our own unique harvest festival.
Happening in and around Much Marcle, the weekend celebrities our local orchards, apples and cider.
A 200-year-old ale house standing between Preston Cross and Much Marcle, four miles southwest of Ledbury, The Royal Oak sits on the edge of farmland. The Daffodil Line route passes by the car park, and although there is no formal bus stop or sign, if you ask the driver in advance he will stop as close to the pub as the traffic conditions safely allow.
If you trace the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border it quickly becomes clear that no one used a ruler to draw these boundaries. But one place that seems especially in the wrong county is Preston Cross. In this article we find out why.
A trip out on the bus to Weston’s Cider Mill in Much Marcle promises fun for all the family: a free play park, shire horses, ice cream and of course plenty of cider to sample!
An easy 4.5 mile walk from Much Marcle to Dymock taking in varied countryside and one of England’s most amazing churches, before finishing with a nice cold beer.
