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Ledbury

Footnote: 

Content generated during research for two paperback books 'Ledbury: A Market Town and its Tudor Heritage' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-598-7) and 'Ledbury: People and Parish before the Reformation' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-614-4) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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Number 2 High Street, Ledbury, has been a baker's shop for at least 130 years.

Number 1 High Street, Ledbury, is a 16th century timber-framed building that occupies the corner site at the meeting of High St with Church Lane.

The Seven Stars is one of the oldest inns in Ledbury.

The house and shop, No. 20 High Street at the corner of Worcester Road, is of three storeys of which the uppermost is an addition.

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The settlement which developed into Ledbury grew up in the Anglo-Saxon period at an important crossroads where the road from Hereford to Worcester

This two-storey timber-framed building is a key central structure in Ledbury and an important visual symbol of the town.

Stephen Ballard was influential in shaping the town of Ledbury through the critical time of the canal and railway construction.  A

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