Mappa Mundi

We passed through some delightful English countryside to reach Hereford. The landscape was a patchwork of many deciduous trees, small fields, some glowing with buttercups enclosed by hedges. There were many orchards and small towns with pretty timber-framed houses. There were also lots of Lego housing estates.

We parked up at Asda after getting diesel, £1.73 a litre. From there it was a pleasant 5 minute walk into the town centre to the cathedral. It was wonderful to see the Mappa Mundi, the oldest map on vellum in the world (since the Allies destroyed the German one in an air raid in WW2.) Also of interest was the chained library.

Our next stop was half an hour up the road at Brockhampton, a NT property dating from
Medieval times, and inhabited till 1987. The trust furnished each room in the style of a different century and they are re-planting the orchard with old English apples now no longer grown commercially.

We are now driving north in our quest to find a suitable place to park overnight before the trek up to Sabden to call on a widowed friend.