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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
Chancel renovation works in progress in St Leonard's church.
Churches Count on Nature week - Saturday 5th to Saturday 13th June. Exhibition in St Leonard's Church.
Byecroft, Welshman's Lane open garden - Saturday & Sunday, 19th & 20th June from 2pm to 5pm.
Yarpole Shop AGM will be held on Thursday 24th June on Zoom, at 7.00pm.
The Bell at Yarpole is open for indoor dining and drinking. See the menu here.
The Gallery Café is now open in the marquee and inside the church. 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.
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Welcome to Yarpole, nestling in rolling countryside in North Herefordshire, mid way between the market towns of Ludlow and Leominster.
Summer is coming, we are moving out of lockdown. Vaccinations are rolling out apace. We can start to enjoy our Parish all over again!
Coronavirus cases in Herefordshire.
After three weeks of case numbers falling the last week has seen a rise in case numbers. Last week there were 34 new cases, up from 22 of the previous week. The data is updated every Tuesday. Deaths now include all deaths in Herefordshire, not just those occurring in hospital. There has been one new Coronavirus related death. For more detailed information from the Government website click on the link.
Churches count on Nature - Love Your churchyard.
There are over 20,000 burial grounds in England and Wales, ranging from small rural medieval churchyards to large Victorian city cemeteries, spanning different cultures, religions and centuries.
Appealing to many who are interested in local history and the natural world, burial grounds encapsulate the history of communities whilst offering refuge for our native wildlife.
For many people burial grounds are the only locally accessible green space. However, their heritage value, and even their continuing presence, cannot be taken for granted. They are under threat from development, closure, under management and mismanagement.
Join in with this dedicated week to celebrate your burial ground! This year it runs from Saturday 5th to Sunday 13th June. To celebrate this there is an exhibition in St Leonard's Church. Discover our churchyard.
Yarpole Community Shop AGM.
Thursday 24th June 2021 at 7.00pm, electronically by Zoom.
For more details of important information please click on the links below -
Change of format of this years AGM.
The Shop AGM minutes for 2020.
Proposed changes to the Yarpole Shop constitution.
Online nomination form for Shop Board members.
The Bell at Yarpole is open for indoor dining. Life is getting back to normal and from the 19th May it will be possible to eat inside. Two households or up to six people will be allowed to sit together.
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 is open in the marquee outside the church and also inside the church; though with the current renovation works it can be noisy inside the building.. Coffee, tea, hot and cold drinks and the Cafe's delicious homemade cakes will again be available. Sit down lunches will be available on Thursday and Friday's. Takeaway's will also be available to order on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. See the Gallery Café page for details and the menu.
The Walking Group has published self guided walks for people to enjoy. These are available via this link. The Walking Group has re started regular walks on the 2nd Friday and 4th Sunday of the month. Walks start at 10.30am outside St Leonard's Church unless otherwise notified.
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.
Mobile 'phones don't work here!