June 14th to 22nd Herefordshire Walking Festival www.walkingfestival.com
June 27th to 28th Dore Abbey Music Festival www.doreabbey.org.co.uk
June 28th to 29th Shobden Flower Festival
September 13th Kington Show
September 13th to 21st Herefordshire Art week www.h-art.org.uk
October 18th to 19th Cider Making Festival www.cidermuseum.co.uk
October 25th to 26th Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival www.visitherefordshire.co.uk
Magna Carta exhibition, Hereford Cathedral (to be confirmed)
Hay on Wye is conveniently located just 4 miles from Cottage Farm and boasts possibly the largest collection of second-hand book shops in the world. This historic small market town is located on Offa's Dyke and hosts the May Literary Festival which attracts thousands of visitors (and celebrities) each year.
The Cathedral City of Hereford is located 18 miles to the east and maintains the atmosphere of a pleasant market town. It offers the famous Mappa Mundi exhibition, the first and second largest chained library collections and the Cider Museum.
Middlewood provides an excellent base for activities in the Golden Valley, Wye Valley, Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons - we even have three walks which start at the farm gate!
Due to it's very quiet, rural location, Middlewood is best reached by car, but buses and taxi's operate out of Hay on Wye and Hereford. The nearest Train station is in Hereford.
Middlewood is situated in the civil parish of Clifford and the parochial parish of Hardwicke. Middlewood is first mentioned in the Domesday Book with Earl Harold owning 2 Hides (approximately 240 acres), including Bach and Harewood. These lands in Valle Stradelie lie on the northern boundary of Dorstone, but mostly in the parish of Clifford. The first recorded property was a church commissioned in 1200 by Walter de Clifford upon his return from the Crusades.
Cottage Farm was converted in the 1980's from an orginal hay loft that was part of the Middlewood estate, owned by a single family from the late 1770's until 1905.
Julie is a keen local historian with a wealth of knowledge and information available on request.