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Welcome to the Yarpole Parish website - get information on events, facilities within the Parish, social groups, Yarpole Community Shop, The Bell at Yarpole, volunteering opportunities, the Parish Council and the PCC and more.
Yarpole events
Coronavirus - if you have a cough, sore throat, headache, fever, shortness of breath or loss of taste or smell - please keep away from public spaces. For the latest NHS advice click here.
Church services at Yarpole and Croft are currently suspended. There will be a service via zoom each Sunday at 10.00am. Use the email for the zoom link.
The Bell at Yarpole has a selection of great takeaways in March. See the menu here.
The Gallery café is serving takeawy meals on Thursday's and Friday's each week. See the Gallery café page for details.
If you are organising an event and you'd like it to appear on the website calendar and in the regular 'what's on' email, Facebook and in The Parishioner, please use the on-line form.
If you would like to receive regular emails about forthcoming events email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Welcome to Yarpole, nestling in rolling countryside in North Herefordshire, mid way between the market towns of Ludlow and Leominster.
There is no Yarpole calendar this year. In 2015 the Yarpole calendar featured Yarpole Shopping bags and the people who had been associated with them. It was our most successful calendar. To celebrate 2021 and hopefully to bring a smile we are again featuring Yarpole Shopping bags. To see the images just click on the video play. We hope you enjoy the latest creation.
How Yarpole is tackling the coronavirus outbreak.
The roadmap out of lockdown, starting 8th March.
- Schools will return.
- Recreation and exercise with one other person from a separate household will be permitted.
- If you are currently shielding, please continue to shield until at least Wednesday 31st March.
- Every care home resident will be able to nominate a single named visitor who can come in for a regular visit. The visitor will have to take a symptom-free test every time they visit, wear PPE and keep physical contact to a minimum.
Until the 8th March, stay at home. You cannot leave your home or be outside of it unless absolutely necessary.
For the full details click on the link England National Lockdown restrictions.
Coronavirus cases in Herefordshire.
There has been a rise in confirmed cases by 113 (down from last week's 173 cases) during the past week in Herefordshire. Case numbers have fallen again after plateauing. The chart is updated every Tuesday. Deaths now include all deaths in Herefordshire, not just those occurring in hospital. There have been 5 new Coronavirus related deaths. For more detailed information from the Government website click on the link.
Yarpole Parish Talk Community Hub Survey.
Questionaires have been distributed with March's copy of The Parishioner. Please take the time to complete the questionaire. Answering it will help identify needs within the parish; sometimes small changes can make a big difference. It was just that no one had thought of it until it was pointed out!
Additional copies can be downloaded here.
The Bell at Yarpole.
The Bell is selling homemade bread through the Shop every Wednesday. The first delivery was on Wednesday, 27th January.
The Bell at Yarpole takeaways.
The weekly takeaway menu is back. A great selection of fantastic meals available Friday and Saturday evenings and for Sunday lunch. For the current menu click here!
Please call 01568 780515 (or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to pre order.
We would like to say a huge Thank You to everyone who has ordered a takeaway over the past months and helped support us.
The Gallery Café has had to close due to the imposition of lockdown restrictions. It will, however, be offering a takeaway service on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. See the Gallery Café page for details and the menu.
The Shop and the Post Office remain open weekdays.
Is it safe to wear a visor instead of a mask?
Although the guidance for England does not specifically mention visors/shields, the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed that they do not qualify as face coverings and can only be worn in addition to a mask but not instead of it. The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland administrations explicitly state that visors/shields are not considered face coverings as they do not provide adequate protection alone. Modelling in Japan found that plastic face shields are almost totally ineffective at trapping respiratory aerosols.
How to make your own facemask. Follow these simple instructions.
You can download and print off the pattern and instructions.
The Walking Group has published self guided walks for people to enjoy. These are available via this link.
Please look out for neighbours.
Finally we have composed a list of FREE on-line resources for people to access from home. Follow the link FREE 0N-LINE RESOURCES.
There has been a community recorded here for over 2000 years. The village is mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The Anglo-Saxon meaning of Yarpole (Iarpol or Yarpol) is fish pool or dam for containing fish. The original fish pool has long since been abandoned, the remains of the dam wall are still visible.
Yarpole still retains its red telephone kiosk, its pub, The Bell at Yarpole and has an award winning community run village shop and Post Office operating from within the Parish Church, St Leonard's. The first full time shop in a church.
The Parish has a population of approximately 700 and comprises of the villages of Bircher and Lucton, the community on Bircher Common and the hamlet of Bicton.
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