The Master's House is one of the oldest buildings in Ledbury. It was the home of the Master of St.
Ledbury Union Workhouse was built in 1836 in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. For nearly 100 years it served the poor of Ledbury.
Rector's Gill provided an overspill burial ground in Bishopwearmouth.
Almshouses were built to cater for the "respectable poor" from early in the 1700s. For the desperate, there was the workhouse.
In Jacob's Well Road a small rock-cut chamber with two stone steps contains a wellhead.
In 1696 the Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers built their almshouses here for sick and elderly sailors, and the building still survives.
Original 1837 entrance building in North Road, South Molton
Bilbower, High Street, a doctor's surgery in 2008
