Bricks and tiles have been used for building in Ledbury for centuries.
Church Street was formerly called Hallend, then Back Lane This road was probably the beginning of the early route from Ledbury to Worcester.
The earliest name for the street, recorded from 1288, was Bishop Street, after the bishop of Hereford, who probably held land there.
When the Bishop of Hereford established a borough in his rural manor of Ledbury in the early twelfth century a new market place was laid out in wha
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 house and shop, No. 20 High Street at the corner of Worcester Road, is of three storeys of which the uppermost is an addition.
The settlement which developed into Ledbury grew up in the Anglo-Saxon period at an important crossroads where the road from Hereford to Worcester
The brick front of 8 High St, Ledbury, with its stone quoins and deep moulded cornice belongs to the first half of the 18th century but it is a re-
Although No. 3 High Street, with its 18th century brick front like others in the row, probably contains timber framing, it is well hidden.
Sited immediately alongside the chapel of St Katherine's, this three-storey timber-framed building is occupied by an optician's business.
