The earliest name for the street, recorded from 1288, was Bishop Street, after the bishop of Hereford, who probably held land there.
The church has Anglo-Saxon origins. The present building contains some Norman work, but is mainly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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 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 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
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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The author and poet John Masefield is one of Ledbury's most famous sons. He was born at the Knapp, in the Homend, in 1878.
