St Michael's has been described as the premier parish church of Herefordshire. Dating back to 1140 the site of the church was originally Saxon and was mentioned in the Doomsday Book (1086).

As you walk up Church Lane you'll see the church's spire rising skywards.

The much filmed and photographed Church Lane is for many visitors their favourite Ledbury experience. With cobbles underfoot and flanked by overhanging medieval buildings it provides an atmospheric experience that takes you back to days long gone.

Leading from the Market House up the parish church the lane is home to two museums and a medieval painted room, a real ale pub, tea rooms and a homemade chocolate shop.

A mysterious building with frescoes painted on the walls by an unknown artisan from the C16th in imitation of wall-hangings that existed in the great mansions of the period.

A tourist guide in Tudor costume is present to give a talk about this most unusual and unique building.

Open 11.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday (April to end October) Sundays 2-5pm (mid July to mid September) - Tel: 01531 632306

This small museum in Church Lane is a C16th house that originally stood in the middle of Ledbury's High Street. The museum houses reproduction helmets and breastplates as worn in the Battle of Ledbury (1645), Victorian costumes and various Victorian folk curiosities.

The museum is open daily from 11am to 5pm from Good Friday to 30 September and from 11am to 3pm in October. Admission is free.

Built circa 1480 Ledbury's C17th Boys Grammar School is now a local history museum with exhibits of Ledbury's famous poets John Masefield and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning as well as Ledbury's canal and railway past and a recent exhibit about the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark.

The museum is now closed for the season, but the Centre remains open until 14th December, Monday to Saturday, from 10am to 3.30pm to sell charity Christmas cards.

St Katherine's Hospital site, circa 1231, is a rare surviving example of a hospital complex with hall and chapel, master's house, almhouses and timber-framed barn.

Located off the High Street next to St Katherine's car park, the hall is often used for markets and sales, while the Master's House is home to Info in Herefordshire.

With very few high street chain stores but a diversity of independent shops Ledbury's high street offers a unique shopping experience that is admired by visitors far and wide.

As well as several gift shops, excellent cafes, antiques and bookshops Ledbury offers a handmade chocolate shop, a cartoonery, an apothercary, a radio controlled model helicopter shop, a jewellery designer and no less than three high street butchers, two delicatessens, a local bakers and an ice cream parlour/Internet cafe.

Markets

Ledbury also has markets under the Market House on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Saturday is the busier market day where you can buy local french bread, tasty cheeses, organic vegetables, garden plants and local arts and crafts. Max the fishmonger is there on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Ledbury Country Market takes place every Friday at St Katherine's Hall in the High Street from 8.30 to 12 noon.

Kempley Produce Market - on the second Saturday of every month.

Antiques & Collectables Flea Market takes place every Tuesday at St Katherine's Hall from March 6th to December 11th, 2012, (except Tuesday October 9th) and on Saturdays May 12th and September 1st.

A few times a year Ledbury High Street hosts Friday international markets:

French Market:

Italian Market:

Ledbury Car Boot Sale - Starting in the Spring every Sunday 1-4pm on the Ross Road.

Markets in the Three Counties